Storage and server virtualization

Something’s brewing with NetApp, VMware and Cisco

A website went up today taking registrations for a web conference being put on Jan. 26th by NetApp Inc., VMware Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc., a coalition that looks similar to the VCE alliance announced...

HP looks to entice SMBs, hypes Hyper-V bundles

HP made some storage updates today as part of a larger announcement aimed at SMBs looking to cut costs, including new Hyper-V bundles. Storage-related updates include:

• New application-integrated snapshot option for LeftHand iSCSI SANs. LeftHand already had...

VMware CTO drops storage hints in futures keynote

VMware Inc. CTO Steve Herrod (above) dropped...

Remote data protection vendors cozy up to Microsoft

Microsoft's annual TechEd user conference kicks off today in Los Angeles, accompanied by the usual flurry of supporting news announcements from industry vendors. Today the theme seems to be remote data protection, whether file delivery to branch offices, or data backup and disaster...

Analysts: demand more from your storage vendor in virtual environments

A recent report by Andrew Reichman at Forrester Research showed that among 124 surveyed IT decision-makers, incumbent vendors and Fibre Channel still dominate the in-use storage systems supporting VMware deployments. But, according to Reichman and another analyst specializing in VMware, the Burton...

Users look increasingly to storage virtualization as data grows, analyst says

I had an interesting conversation today with TheInfoPro's managing director of storage research Rob Stevenson about the results of his firm's latest survey of 250 Fortune 1000 and midsize enterprise storage users. Fortune 1000 users surveyed by TIP cited block virtualization as having the...

EMC’s Maui surfaces, then disappears

EMC blogger Storagezilla posted an interesting Flash animated video this morning about Maui, titled CloudFellas, in a post that has since been whacked. In the original post, 'zilla alluded to 'getting too far out in front of the boss', so maybe that's what happened (the post has been deleted...

NetApp CEO is cool with new VMware boss

NetApp has a strong working relationship with VMware, despite counting VMware's parent EMC as its storage archrival. So NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven didn't know what to make of the...

The great storage chargeback debate

"You need HOW MUCH for storage?!" That question has been heard by many of us currently submitting budgets for the next calendar year, quickly followed by "Are you SURE you need that much disk? Didn't we just get disk last year? Where did they all go!? I want your house audited....

More server virtualization benchmark drama

Last time on As the Benchmark Turns, we saw NetApp pull a fast one on EMC. This week's episode brings us into the torrid realm of