I’ve been involved in solutions for a few customers recently where they opted to not buy part of the solution, instead choosing to go with a less expensive storage option for data that they perceived to not merit the cost of higher end storage solutions. QNAP, Synology, and similar providers […]
I previously blogged about the release of the SC7020, which is part of the “odd number refresh” that has now added the SC5020. By this, I mean that it appears the even numbered SC platforms (SCv2000, SC4020, SC8000) will be refreshed via odd numbered platforms, of which we now have […]
One of the most popular articles of all time on this blog has been an article on how to get CrashPlan running on a headless server. Crashplan changed some things in how this needs to be done, so my old article was no longer correct. I went through the process […]
** UPDATE ** This platform is no longer unified. Dell has removed the ability for the SC7020 to provide NAS services. The system has also had its scalability limited from a drive count perspective. Now at 500 drives. I will keep my comments on these changes to myself. *** […]
Last year at .NEXT 2015 in Miami, Nutanix announced scale out NAS services which was for Acropolis only. In version 4.7, which was announced at .NEXT 2016 in Las Vegas, this feature will be available on AHV and ESXi. Its pretty cool. Check out the official feature page here. Here […]
Day 2 of the 2016 Nutanix .NEXT conference at the Wynn in Las Vegas. This morning brought out a couple interesting announcements, as well as the delivery of some features that were announced last year in Miami. Acropolis Block Services is the most interesting one to me. I expect some […]
Dell recently announced the release of SCOS 7.0. SCOS is the Storage Center Operating System, which is the software that runs Dells SC storage line, including the SCv2000, SC4020, SC8000, and SC9000, with more to come soon. These are the products that were formerly known as Compellent. Check out the […]
EMC World 2016 in Las Vegas just wrapped up a couple hours ago, and I thought I would share my thoughts on the Unity product line that was officially announced here. What it is: Unity is the next evolution of EMC’s midrange storage array. It would fall into the traditional […]
Dell released the Dell SC9000 at Dell World 2015 in Austin TX this week. The SC9000 is the new high end Compellent controller, a space currently occupied by the SC8000. Much of the messaging I’ve consistently heard around the new Dell SC9000, however, is that it is not a replacement […]
Dell announced the SCv2000 series storage arrays back in May of 2015. I’m a bit late to the party here, but I wanted to wait until I had actually had the opportunity to integrate several of these systems into customer environments. These systems start at about $10k via the Dell […]