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Almost 8 years ago
Commented on NetApp do have a “pure” block storage array but it lacks the advanced data services enabled by WAFL
Please post any questions at http://blog.snsltd.co.uk/does-it-really-matter-if-netapp-fas-is-not-pure-block-storage/
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About 8 years ago
Contributed a review of HPE SimpliVity: It's an incredibly elegant solution that is built for the VM, not LUN, which delivers on the vision of VMware Virtual Volumes today.
Over 8 years ago
Commented on VSAN vs. EVO:RAIL
Hi
I think it it early days for VSAN and even when it does take off it will be deployed along side SAN/NAS arrays in medium to large organisations.
As with all technologies the architecture of something like VSAN has both positive and negative attributes when compared to…
Almost 9 years ago
Almost 9 years ago
Contributed a review of NetApp FAS Series: We have flash caching, but it would be nice if we could move data between flash, SAS and SATA drives.
Almost 9 years ago
Contributed a review of NetApp FAS Series: Policies are applied to FlexVols but it would be useful if they could also be specified for an individual Virtual Volume.
Almost 9 years ago
Contributed a review of VMware EVO:RAIL [EOL]: It is a nice piece of technology, but it is way too expensive.
Almost 9 years ago
Contributed a review of VMware EVO:RAIL [EOL]: VSAN vs. EVO:RAIL
Almost 9 years ago
Contributed a review of Z - Placeholder: Ideally it needs to support HDDs and/or different tiers of SDDs but it offers a variable length block layout that is equally adept at different I/O sizes.
Almost 9 years ago
Contributed a review of Commvault Cloud: NetApp E Series and CommVault Simpana
About 9 years ago
Contributed a review of VMware vSphere: Hopefully Long-Distance vMotion is only going to get better.
About 9 years ago
Contributed a review of NetApp FAS Series: NetApp do have a “pure” block storage array but it lacks the advanced data services enabled by WAFL
About 9 years ago
Contributed a review of VMware vSAN: The solution is simple to manage but redirect-on-write snapshots is needed
About 9 years ago
Contributed a review of Dell RecoverPoint: RecoverPoint combines vSphere Replication with RecoverPoint for storage arrays
About 9 years ago
Contributed a review of VMware vSAN: VMware Virtual SAN vs. EMC ScaleIO and conventional storage arrays
About 9 years ago
Contributed a review of Dell VPLEX: NetApp MetroCluster vs. EMC VPLEX
About 9 years ago
Contributed a review of NetApp AFF: NetApp vs. XtremIO
About 9 years ago
Contributed a review of Dell XtremIO: NetApp vs. XtremIO vs. HDS
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Reviews
Almost 9 years ago
NetApp FAS Series
Almost 9 years ago
NetApp FAS Series
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Almost 9 years ago
VMware EVO:RAIL [EOL]
About 9 years ago
NetApp FAS Series
About 9 years ago
VMware vSAN
About 9 years ago
Dell RecoverPoint
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Almost 8 years ago
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My role over the last decade has been to understand new technologies to enable SNS to help our customers to exploit the latest innovations in IT.
I believe that modern IT is about consolidation, simplification and innovation, but the challenge for most IT professionals is keeping up with the pace of change and cutting through all of the vendor hype.
I enjoy delving deep into product architectures to understand their technical strengths and weaknesses, as well as their associated costs so that I am fully equipped to provide our customers with the best possible value proposition.
I focus on Storage, Backup and Archive, Disaster Recovery, and Server and Desktop Virtualisation solutions built with products from market-leading vendors including EMC, HDS, NetApp, Riverbed, CommVault and VMware.
