Posts by James Pond

Dell kills sweetheart distribution deal with Broadcom's VMware

Re: OK, I'll bite

I want to point out Openstack.

Respected Wall St analyst snips HPE's share price rating

Blame it on Meg!

Blame it on Meg Whitman!

HPE always had, as it's biggest cheerleader, HPES (Enterprise Services) to rely on to sell to their outsourcing accounts. Now that HPES is merged with CSC to make DXC, the DXC direction is increasingly moving away from HPE products.

Unlocking value my foot.

Official: AMD now stands for All the Money, Dudes!

Re: Great news for AMD, but where's the profit?

If you think about it a bit more, you'll know the answer.

psstt.....it's due to high prices of their CPU....plus the fact as their revenue is so large their fixed costs are a lower %.

Twice-crashed HPE SANs at Oz Tax Office built for speed, not strength, and turned off error reporting

Common guy interpretation?

Let me see if I can interpret this for the common person.

1- The fibre optic cables feeding the SAN were not optimally fitted -

How is this possible? There should be a "click" sound when the LC connector is fitted in. It's always been "insert" or "not inserted". I don't recall any instance where a FC cable can be halfway inserted. Maybe the cables were "bent".

2- Disk drives on the SAN had software bugs that made the stored data on the drives inaccessible or unable to be read -

If I can't read data on a disk, blame it on a firmware bug instead of a software bug.....

3- Some monitoring features were not activated, including a "back-to-base" tool to report operating errors -

When setting up - "ATO is a very very very secure site, I DON'T WANT CALLBACK! Disable callback! My peons will monitor this!"

Post mortem - "How did 12 disks fail without anyone knowing??? Didn't you promise callback??? Why is it not working????"

4- SAN design has overemphasis on performance features rather than stability or resilience -

When setting up - "I am on a tight very budget. Can you give me X TB usable by configuring RAID 5?"

Post mortem - "WHY ARE THE DISKS ON RAID 5??? These data are critical! I WANT THEM ON RAID 6 OR RAID 1!!!"

Watch your back, Netflix: Viu on track for 10 million subs next year

Netflix has hardly any Asian content.

Korean, Hong Kong, and Taiwan titles are really popular in South East Asia (particularly Korean; they have gone from strength to strength every year, eclipsing HK drama in my family). Netflix will not be able to compete unless they offer regional content.

I am a Telekom Malaysia user, and use both iFlix (free 1 year) and Viu (free 1 month). I trialled the 1 month free Netflix subscription, but apart from a few comedies, the rest are uninspiring.

Gone Goel: HPE changes storage leadership

Re: Haven't Understood HPE's Storage Strategy for a while now

I'm surprised to hear about HPE Sales team pushing EVAs. They are quite dead (5 years old and counting...).

What I've heard is XP7 is for mainframe and 100% availability scenarios, and 3PAR for everything else. StoreVirtual and it's ilk for several niche cases.

HGST closing SSD plant in Malaysia – report

Re: Why

The temperature is hot enough (> 40 degrees Celsius) that the rubber may get deformed or damaged after prolonged "contact" with the windscreen.

Deutsche Bank's creaking IT systems nervously eyeing bins

Private Cloud...

Deutsche Bank is implementing Private Cloud - that is, a virtualization (cloudy) infrastructure that runs inside the bank's Data Centers.

Coraid and CommVault team up, grab biz barons' backup from HP, Sepaton

Cheap!

Honestly, $50,000 for 96TB usable is bloody cheap. A similarly configured StoreOnce runs more than $200k.

Tape's NOT dead. WHOMP: This 8.5TB Oracle drive proves it

Error in LTO6 capacity

It should be 2.5TB native, not 3.2TB native.

Quantum hands out 190 pink slips... quits making own tape library

Re: I don't understand

You're not behind the times. It's just that with more deduplication being done there is less need for tape drives. I'm doing preliminary scoping work for a new setup and what used to be done by 8xLTO4 drives can now be done by 4xLTO6 (or less) drives.

HP lunges at EMC's midrange with new 3PAR StoreServ 7000s

Anybody got any idea how much 3PAR with Windows Storage Server 2012 can scale? And with daily backups to tape? Above 100TB?

Nimbus boots EVA out of Mitsubishi

IT Department?

I think their IT department shafted them - you may notice they're still using EVA and MSA for other services - presumably file.

Tales from the storage frontier: What's next for flash, disk and tape

Why is everybody comparing 2TB HDDs from Amazon???

While off-the-shelf consumer grade HDDs may be usable small enterprises and provide a good price advantage, for larger enterprises (those with storage arrays) these drives do not cut it.

The cheapest 2TB SATA I can find is from HP's MSA60 Direct Attached Storage system at a retail price of $539. You can be sure those that connect to storage arrays (EMC Clariion, HDS AMS2000, HP EVAs) costs more than that! These drives normally come with NBD 3-5 years support (depending on vendor).

Mine's with the enterprise-level HDD, not the consumer-level HDD.

Promise roars into mid-range with Jasper Forest

440k IOPS?

440k disk IOPS (no cache)? Really? Did it go through SPC benchmark? How was this figure derived?

Save us from our users

Considered biometrics?

Have you considered biometric logins? Things like fingerprint scanners are standard on new laptops nowadays. However, if you have desktops, that may be a bit of a hassle.

Adobe apologizes for festering Flash crash bug

IE vs Firefox crash

IE8 runs each tab as a separate process while Firefox runs all tabs as 1 process. This makes IE8 much more robust - the only downside is IE8 consumes more RAM than Firefox. At this moment in my PC Firefox (5 tabs) uses 190MB while IE8 (3 tabs) uses 290MB.

HDS has archive head in the clouds

Forgot HDDS (sounds like HDS eh? :) )

The Hitachi Data Discovery Suite (HDDS) is one of the products that can integrate into HCP and provide eDiscovery. HDDS also has a Sharepoint module (aptly called HDDMS - Hitachi Data Discovery for Microsoft Sharepoint).