HDS Sees Skies of BlueArc
Last week, Hitachi Data Systems announced the acquisition of longtime OEM partner BlueArc. Our interviewee storage professionals saw this coming:
- “HDS doesn’t have NAS. They should look into a solution.” – storage pro at a large-enterprise consumer goods/retail company
- “HDS should acquire BlueArc to give them more of a presence in the NAS space.” – storage pro at an MSE education organization
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Tags: EMC Late to Autotiering Party … Takes Over Turntable
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Storage tiers have existed since storage networking allowed shared storage, reducing cost by allowing different price/performance selections for data. Over the last year, the focus for autotiering moved within the array, exploiting the price/performance variations of different drive types: SSD, FC, SAS and SATA. Drive choices have been available for some time; it is the automation of tiering that is generating interest today. Below are a few examples of how your peers talk about the subject:
- “We have some tiering now. [We have] EMC VMAX as tier 1, we have IBM and NetApp rebranded, and VMAX has tiering in the box. Right now the thing our manager is pushing for is to determine whether tiering in a box is cost- effective, because if you have to grow a tier, you may need another engine.”
- “HDS’s VSP device does self-tiering and fits in a 19-inch rack.”
Compellent pioneered block level autotiering within the array as far back as 2005. The major vendors scrambled to include the technology on their roadmaps, with some developing it, while others acquired it like Dell (via Compellent), or HP (via 3PAR).
EMC came to market late, taking several release cycles to develop matching technology. Yet already, they are the leading vendor for this technology. Significantly, EMC has an overwhelming lead among respondents with pilot or other plans for autotiering. Coming from behind, EMC has redefined the segment and taken mindshare ownership.
Interest in autotiering is still experimental with most spending less than $50K. As 73% of current users are planning to spend more on the technology next year, we are clearly just at the beginning of its lifecycle.
Autotiering is not just a block prerogative. F5 Networks appear on short lists as well by delivering such capabilities in NAS environments. Some vendors like BlueArc are not yet appearing in significant numbers in our interviews, but are getting positive feedback like the following statements:
- “F5 for ‘ILM’ auto-tiering.”
- “I like [BlueArc's] multitiered file systems.”
TheInfoPro Recommendation: IT professionals should make sure their preferred vendors are offering this technology for SAN and NAS environments, but verify that the cost savings generated will not be consumed by overheads of the technology and the management that is sometimes required.
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IT Spending 2010 to Focus on Infrastructure, Optimization, ROI
23 November 2009 | Channel Insider | Original Article
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State of the IT marketplace in 2010 and beyond – new research from TheInfoPro
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