Snig Nigel has left the building... It is a sad, but happy day for me. Nigel, one of the first bloggers here on rupturedmonkey.com is moving on. And it's about time! ;) He has created his own blog over at http://blog.nigelpoulton.com. His posts over there will be deep dives into technology products that
Snig USP-V and Hitachi High Availability Manager Well there has been a lot of confusion the past couple days about the latest announcement from HDS about clustering of the USP-V. I hope to clear up some of the technical details with this post, but I'm sure there will be some questions that remain. First, lets talk about
Snig USP-V and Hitachi High Availability Manager Well there has been a lot of confusion the past couple days about the latest announcement from HDS about clustering of the USP-V. I hope to clear up some of the technical details with this post, but I'm sure there will be some questions that remain. First, lets talk about
Snig Question About V-Max Was just thinking through some of the newer storage tech today while driving to and from a customer. It is widely expected that HDS is going to announce the availability of their clustering of the USP-V line of boxes tomorrow. We know that the technology has been built into the
Snig Question About V-Max Was just thinking through some of the newer storage tech today while driving to and from a customer. It is widely expected that HDS is going to announce the availability of their clustering of the USP-V line of boxes tomorrow. We know that the technology has been built into the
Snig Oracle to Buy Sun Find the new release here [http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp]. I think this is awesome news for Sun. This will keep what they have going strong and streamline some of that are on the fringe. I think Ellison summed it up best here: "The acquisition of
Snig Oracle to Buy Sun Find the new release here [http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp]. I think this is awesome news for Sun. This will keep what they have going strong and streamline some of that are on the fringe. I think Ellison summed it up best here: "The acquisition of
FCoE FCoE: Do Most People Need It? I've been at SNW all week trying to find out why an end user would want to implement FCoE. Every time I write about it I get a number of vendor responses saying that I'm wrong and that it's coming and that FCoE will rule the world. Everyone will adopt
FCoE FCoE: Do Most People Need It? I've been at SNW all week trying to find out why an end user would want to implement FCoE. Every time I write about it I get a number of vendor responses saying that I'm wrong and that it's coming and that FCoE will rule the world. Everyone will adopt
Snig HDS Release VMware SRA v2 HDS slipped version 2 of their SRA adapter for Site Recovery Manager out onto VMware's download site. I'm sure there will be an announcement next week at SNW. You can find it here: http://www.vmware.com/downloads/
Snig HDS Release VMware SRA v2 HDS slipped version 2 of their SRA adapter for Site Recovery Manager out onto VMware's download site. I'm sure there will be an announcement next week at SNW. You can find it here: http://www.vmware.com/downloads/
Snig New Storage Service Launched Check out http://storage.rupturedmonkey.com It free. It's a simple file sharing site with email and all the normal features. No need to pay subscriptions to YouSendIt, et.al. any longer. Let me know what you think.
Snig New Storage Service Launched Check out http://storage.rupturedmonkey.com It free. It's a simple file sharing site with email and all the normal features. No need to pay subscriptions to YouSendIt, et.al. any longer. Let me know what you think.
Snig EMC's Writers Summit I've just been extended an invitation to this upcoming summit in June. I've never been before and have a few questions for anyone that has. - Is this summit technical in nature or is EMC trying to make sure that writers have their product messaging down? - If you've been
Snig EMC's Writers Summit I've just been extended an invitation to this upcoming summit in June. I've never been before and have a few questions for anyone that has. - Is this summit technical in nature or is EMC trying to make sure that writers have their product messaging down? - If you've been
Snig IBM Pulling a Fast One on Diligent Customers? Word on the street is that IBM is pulling the old switch a roo on current Dilient ProtecTier customers. They aren't going to allow current customers to upgrade to version 2.1 of the new product from an older version. The new version won't be able to read the old
Snig IBM Pulling a Fast One on Diligent Customers? Word on the street is that IBM is pulling the old switch a roo on current Dilient ProtecTier customers. They aren't going to allow current customers to upgrade to version 2.1 of the new product from an older version. The new version won't be able to read the old
Snig AMS 2000 Series We've known about this box most of the summer but was sworn to secrecy. I'm pretty excited about this latest release of the AMS line. Moving enterprise features into the modular line is never a bad thing. Check out the official annoucement here: LINK [http://www.hds.com/corporate/press-analyst-center/
Snig AMS 2000 Series We've known about this box most of the summer but was sworn to secrecy. I'm pretty excited about this latest release of the AMS line. Moving enterprise features into the modular line is never a bad thing. Check out the official annoucement here: LINK [http://www.hds.com/corporate/press-analyst-center/
Snig Video on RAMAC Someone sent me a link to a sweet video from back in the day that talks about the design process and production on RAMAC and the first magnetic disk. Video after the break. [flv]http://www.archive.org/download/SearchAtSanJose_IBM_RAMAC/SearchAtSanJose_IBM_RAMAC.flv[/flv]
Snig Video on RAMAC Someone sent me a link to a sweet video from back in the day that talks about the design process and production on RAMAC and the first magnetic disk. Video after the break. [flv]http://www.archive.org/download/SearchAtSanJose_IBM_RAMAC/SearchAtSanJose_IBM_RAMAC.flv[/flv]
Snig Storage VMotion GUI I ran across this sweet Virtual Center plugin while doing some VMware work the other day. It's very simple to use and I didn't have any problems or bugs with it. The link to the SVMotion plugin: Clicky [http://vip-svmotion.wiki.sourceforge.net/] The link to the author's website: Clicky
Snig Storage VMotion GUI I ran across this sweet Virtual Center plugin while doing some VMware work the other day. It's very simple to use and I didn't have any problems or bugs with it. The link to the SVMotion plugin: Clicky [http://vip-svmotion.wiki.sourceforge.net/] The link to the author's website: Clicky