At EMCWorld today Pat Gelsinger  had a pair of VPLEXes flanking him on stage and actively moving VMs from “Boston” to “Hopkinton” data centers.  They showed a demo of moving a bunch of VMs from one to the other with all of them actively performing transaction processing.  I have written about EMC’s vision in a [...]

In all the blog posts/tweets about VMworld this week I didn’t see much about long distance Vmotion. At Cisco’s booth there was a presentation on how they partnered with VMware and to perform Vmotion over 200 (simulated) miles away. I can’t recall when I first heard about this capability but for many of us this [...]

Today, HDS refreshed their AMS2000 product line with a new high density drive expansion tray with 48-drives and up to a maximum capacity of 48TB, 8Gps FC (8GFC) ports for the AMS2300 and AMS2500 systems, and a new NEBS Level-3 compliant and DC powered version, the AMS2500DC. HDS also re-iterated their stance that Dynamic Provisioning [...]

At EMC World this past week, all the news was about VMware, Cisco and EMC and how they are hooking up to address the needs of the new data center user. VMware introduced vSphere which was their latest release of their software which contained significant tweaks to improve storage performance. Cisco was not announcing much [...]