Tegile Systems Ships 1,000th Zebi Array in Only Two Years...

  http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tegile-systems-ships-1000th-zebi-array-in-only-two-years-250768381.html Newark, Calif. – March 18, 2014 – Tegile Systems, the leading provider of flash-driven storage arrays for virtualized server and virtual desktop environments, today announced that it has shipped its 1,000th Zebi™ storage array since making the solution generally available two years ago.  The award-winning line of solutions, which balance high performance, high capacity, features and price, has been deployed by companies across a wide range of industries to help them overcome storage challenges associated with VDI, server virtualization, database hosting, file services and more. Zebi storage arrays leverage the performance of SSD and low cost per TB of high capacity disk drives, delivering as much as seven times the performance and up to 75 percent less capacity required than legacy arrays.  This unique approach has seen marked adoption rates among companies that need faster performance than HDD-based arrays but with less expense than SSD-based arrays. “Customers looking to make the most of their flash investments are buying solutions like Tegile’s whose architectures have been specifically optimized for the use of flash,” said Eric Burgener, research director for IDC’s storage practice. “Their ability to hit the 1,000 unit mark within two years of release shows that their offering is well matched to the requirements of this rapidly growing market, which IDC expects will reach $12.3B in 2016.” It’s great to see Tegile System reach their 1000 unit mark, their continued success is not only great news for Tegile Systems and their customers, but is good news for the industry and end user community alike.  The more choices there are for the consumer, the better chances there are that I can find the right solution to achieve my business outcomes, very...

Servergy Cleantech Server offers a new way ahead...

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140318613/en/Servergy-Announces-Strategic-Channel-Alliances-Avnet-Ingram#.UyjpoMtF3mI DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cleantech IT innovations company Servergy, Inc. – recently described as a “revolutionary disruptor” for the coming “datacenter storm” by Gartner, the top global IT research and advisory firm – today announced strategic channel alliances with Fortune 100 companies Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) and Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) to distribute Servergy’s new Cleantech Servers® to their resellers. Servergy’s new Cleantech Servers® are a new class of clean and green Linux servers that deliver an hyper-efficient platform with extremely high I/O and density that’s very reliable, secure and scalable for cloud, big data, caching, streaming, distributed storage, networking and embedded applications. “Servergy is proud to be working with Avnet and Ingram Micro. Servergy offers channel partners an exciting new class of clean and green Linux servers that literally help pay for themselves,” said Bill Mapp, founder, chairman and CEO, Servergy. “Our channel program is grounded on a very channel friendly sales engagement model designed to ease the costs and complexities of doing business together.” It’s always great to read about new infrastructure offerings, new solutions aiming to create opportunity and deliver value, the power savings, scalability and performance statistics are impressive. I’m off to read more about the work that Servergy are doing and to better understand their...

HP Discover Las Vegas Discount

There are still discounts available for HP Discover in Las Vegas if you register before the end of March, you can find out more at www.hp.com/go/discover: It’s set to be a great event, so if you’re looking at attending do check it...

To P2V or not to P2V – the questions and benefits...

I was having a chat with a colleague a debate really. He’s a project manager working in IT for one of many multinational organizations in the City of London delivering a P2V project, this is the process of virtualizing your servers, migrating the operating system, application and data from a physical server to a virtual server running on an ESX host. It was time to catch up with him and discuss how his project was going, it’s phase three, this means it’s the final phase over the last six years to virtualize the server estate, the project in summary is below (for background): Phase one – virtualize all non production application servers, standardizing configurations during the process to reduce support calls and management overheads, this meant for example standardizing the disk space and memory to improve performance or reduce unncessary calls/alerts being generated. Phase two – virtualize all infrastructure and application servers older than three years to allow IT to decommission any physical servers no longer supported under their support contract and reduce data center footprint. Phase three – virtualize systems of all types based on usage metrics and industry standard performance analysis tools to reduce physical server footprint and data center capacity required. This might for example include physical servers deployed in the last 6 months if they could be easily virtualized due to actual load differing from anticipated load. I was interested to further understand the scope and got us in a debate you see I have mixed views about P2V projects, I am more a fan of combining P2V with a build out program. By that I mean that we do a new for old swap and ask the application teams to test and migrate their applications to a new virtual machine running a newer operating system. Why? We’re only removing the hardware limitation, not the other factors that can generate just as many alerts or risks to stability that is: inadequate configurations (memory/disk space), maintained range of operating systems and configurations that might not meet current standards in terms of design, security baselines and best practice. So what are the benefits of P2V only project: (Migrating physical server to a virtual machine) Reduce number of physical servers Allow physical servers to be re-organized and re-deployed if they have useable life left in them Less disruption...