Tag: storage

Cisco acquires Whiptail

Opened up my work email this morning to be inundated with mails about Cisco acquiring the flash-array startup - Whiptail - for $415m... What makes this interesting was several years ago when I attended the launch of UCS blades, someone in the audience questioned whether Cisco would enter the storage arena.... the answer at that … Continue reading Cisco acquires Whiptail

Flash Storage

So Duncan Epping (http://www.yellow-bricks.com) has put together 3 short blog posts about the numerous Flash Storage start-ups that are springing up...... seems every man and his dog wants to start up a flash storage company these days or get in on the high IO/Performance that can be gained by using flash memory or SSDs! =PAnyways, … Continue reading Flash Storage

10 most influential bosses in the storage arena

10 most influential bosses in the storage arenaQuite interesting article on The Reg regarding the 10 most influential bosses in the storage arena.....Surprised at seeing the CEO of Dropbox in the top 10..... as well as the CEO of Amazon and Facebook's Open Compute Project at 7 & 8..... I guess cloud computing and cloud … Continue reading 10 most influential bosses in the storage arena

Using PowerCLi to run a ESXCli command to find storage info

So recently I had to use VMware Health Analyzer in order to run a health check on a clients' virtual environment alongside a colleague who was running Navisphere Analyzer against the clients' EMC storage array. We notice a slight problem where we couldn't match up the LUN IDs from the storage (ie Channel:Target:Lun - which … Continue reading Using PowerCLi to run a ESXCli command to find storage info