HP announces StoreOnce Catalyst

This week at HP Discover 2012, HP announced StoreOnce Catalyst as a software accelerator (API toolset) that enables its HP StoreOnce backup appliances to achieve up to 100TB/hour in backups – and in restores, too! Along with support for HP’s own Data Protector 7 (also announced at Discover), the StoreOnce family supports Symantec NetBackup and … Read more

Stuff I saw at SNW 2012 Dallas

It’s been a few years since I came to SNW – and while, the number of end-users appears to be dropping (my perception vs. recollection), the types of end-users appear to be exactly the right kind of audience that SNW was built for: storage savvy IT stakeholders looking for education on technology evolutions. I do … Read more

A Look at the Amazon AWS Storage Gateway

Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance.  On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being stored in the Amazon S3 cloud-storage environment. This announcement coincides with the publishing of ESG’s … Read more

Video Blog on Dell Compellent Storage Center Thin Provisioning

Last month, ESG Lab released its Lab Report on Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4. Click here to read the ESG Lab Report on Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4. This project was interesting to me not only because of the technology itself, but because it was the first ESG Lab project that I had the opportunity … Read more