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In the slide labeled "VFCache hardware advantage", would it be possible for you to tell us what the comparison product ("popular card") is? I'm guessing it's an original Fusion-io ioDrive card from those numbers... I think the newer ioDrive2 is substantially faster, and more of a comparable product to the (admittedly very good) Micron P320h you're using!
Commented Feb 6, 2012 on VFCache Means Very Fast Cache Indeed at Chuck's Blog
VFCache Means Very Fast Cache Indeed
Big news today for IT infrastructure professionals. EMC has taken the wraps off of the much-talked-about Project Lightning, and there's much more there than most people expected :) In my previous post, I did my best to set context as to what was going on, why this was important, and so on. Un...
Can you talk a bit more about native snapshot support? I'm not seeing it mentioned anywhere else...
Commented Jul 16, 2011 on vSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 3 - VAAI at VMware vSphere Blog
vSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 3 - VAAI
In a previous post, I mentioned that one of the primary objectives of Storage enhancements in 5.0 is to make the management of storage much simpler. In order to do this we are trying to encourage customers to use much larger and far fewer datastores. One feature that assists in achieving this go...
Give her a second chance, Marc! iPad may not do everything perfectly, but she's so pretty and so fast. Let her back into your life! You'll learn to love again...
(Note: This was YOUR metaphor! Don't blame me!)
Commented May 3, 2010 on OMG! I fell out of love with the iPAD this weekend at StorageRap
OMG! I fell out of love with the iPAD this weekend
My wife brought home an iPad from the high school where she works this weekend because the school is trying to assess the iPad's usefulness as an educational tool. My son spent the most time with it and he likes listening to music and watching videos. He loves the thing. Honestly, I don't kn...
It's too bad we won't be able to continue hearing from you at this blog. I only hope this isn't a sign of deeper anti-blogging sentiment as reported elsewhere...
Commented Apr 14, 2010 on Signing Off at The Backup Blog
Signing Off
Everybody: I am signing off, for now. As of this time I have taken a new role here at EMC, and that means that I am no longer in a position to post new material to this blog. To anybody out there who might be considering writing a blog, or engaging an audience via social media, I have only one ...
Thank you for saying what so many were thinking, Gene!
It's funny - EMC really pulled out the stops, introducing a strategic vision that left many scratching their heads. But the product lurking behind the curtain looks remarkably pedestrian to me so far. Admittedly I have NO special knowledge of it, but based on the hints from Pat and Chuck Hollis and the rest, it looks like a fairly straightforward storage virtualization platform with extra consistency goodness for long-distance use. In other words, a wide-area version of IBM SVC.
This is awesome technically, and I applaud EMC for getting something like this working. But it's far, far from strategic. The miracle is that they wedded such a visionary presentation to such a technical product launch!
Commented Mar 17, 2010 on EMC’s global storage vision at Data Center Strategies
EMC’s global storage vision
Recently, at an analyst meeting, EMC’s president of information infrastructure products (Pat Gelsinger) gave an overview of EMC’s virtual storage vision. It’s all about the cloud and virtualization, and how both technologies carry us on a journey to a “storage from anywhere world”. As Pat spoke,...
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