Around the Storage Block - Friday, March 28, 2008 Entries

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» Thin Provisioning: Why was a Leader a Laggard?

- by Craig Simpson

Recently a competitor, EMC, announced that they are one of the last major block storage vendors to join the Thin Provisioning party. That’s not the way they said it, but if you’re keeping score that’s the way it was. Amazingly enough EMC is often considered a leader in the storage industry. So how did a storage “leader” miss such an important development?

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Posted by The Data Storage Experts on Friday, March 28, 2008 at 1:00:00 AM

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» VDI - a hot technology topic at VMworld Europe

- by Ian Selway

It’s been a few weeks now since VMworld Europe and I have to say, that as shows go, it may have been one of the most tiring yet rewarding shows I've recently attended. HP's booth was extremely busy for each of the three days, maybe it was the magician, maybe it was the impressive displays of hardware or maybe it was because we had our new EVA4400 an MSA2000 arrays on display for their first public outings. It really was a great show and a great platform to launch our new products.

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Posted by The Data Storage Experts on Friday, March 28, 2008 at 12:55:00 AM

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