Tag Archives: NetApp

Building a green data center

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Ray

At NetApp’s Analyst Days last week David Robbins, CTO Information Technology, reported on a new highly efficient Global Dynamic Lab (GDL) data center which they built in Raleigh, North Carolina.  NetApp predicts this new data center  will have a power … Continue reading →

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More on data growth from NetApp analyst days customers

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Ray

Some customers at NetApp’s Analyst Days were discussing deployments of NetApp storage with Dave Hitz the new storage efficiency czar and others but I was more interested in their comments on storage growth issues. Jonathan Bartes of Virginia Farm Bureau … Continue reading →

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ESRP 1K to 5Kmbox performance – chart of the month

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Ray

One astute reader of our performance reports pointed out that some ESRP results could be skewed by the number of drives that are used during a run.  So, we included a database transfers per spindle chart in our latest Exchange … Continue reading →

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NetApp and Microsoft ink 3 year agreement

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Ray

This week, NetApp and Microsoft announced a new agreement that increases the collaboration and integration for both their product technology and sales&marketing activities. Specifically, the new agreement covers better integration of Microsoft’s virtualized infrastructure interaction with NetApp storage. This currently … Continue reading →

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Latest SPECsfs2008 results – chart of the month

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Ray

The adjacent chart is from our September newsletter and shows the top 10 NFSv3 throughput results from the latest SPEC(R) sfs2008 benchmark runs published as of 25 September 2009. There have been a number of recent announcements of newer SPECsfs2008 … Continue reading →

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Why SO/CFS, Why Now

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Ray

Why all the interest in Scale-out/Cluster File Systems (SO/CFS) and why now? Why now is probably easiest to answer, valuations are down. NetApp is migrating GX to their main platform, IBM continues to breath life in GPFS, HP buys IBRIX, … Continue reading →

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BlueArc introduces Mercury

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Ray

Tomorrow, BlueArc will open up a new front in their battle with the rest of the NAS vendors by introducing the Mercury 50 NAS head. This product is slated to address the more mid-range enterprise market that historically shunned the … Continue reading →

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HDS Dynamic Provisioning for AMS

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Ray

HDS announced support today for their thin provisioning (called Dynamic Provisioning) feature to be available in their mid-range storage subsystem family the AMS. Expanding the subsystems that support Thin provisioning can only help the customer in the long run. It’s … Continue reading →

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