This has been a very interesting week in the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere, and the hottest topic was, somewhat ironically, an announcement that seemed to fall flat. Wednesday, HDS brought out its High-Availability Manager for USP-V (quickly dubbed “HAM” by bloggers), and several bloggers called it underwhelming and confusing.
Chris Evans, The Storage Architect - Enterprise Computing: USP-V - So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT - HDS’ HAM-Fisted Announcement Can’t Be All
Storagebod’s Blog - I Wanted Bacon not Ham
To its credit, HDS immediately fired up a whole boatload of responses. Consultant Tony Asaro can be found arguing each point in all of these blog posts.
He also posted this on his Blog Bytes HDS blog:
Real World Implications and Impact of Hitachi High Availability Manager
HDS’s Hu Yoshida also put out a short post that clarified some of the issues:
Hu’s Blog - High Availability Cluster
In the end, there was this Seussian wrap-up of the whole debacle by Stephen Foskett - A Taste of HAM
I have to admit, this last one made me laugh.
In other news, there was some actual news out there this week! A Massachusetts court has ruled that Dave Donatelli, formerly of EMC, may work at HP, but he isn’t allowed to work in the storage division–the result of a non-compete clause the storage veteran signed with his former employer.
And finally, this blog’s parent Ocarina Networks was profiled in The UK Register this week:
Chris Mellor - Ocarina makes waves with lossless image compression
The article takes a look at the company’s compression technology–the first article that gets into this level of detail about it that I’ve seen. Definitely worth a read for those who are wondering about the magic behind its amazing results with image compression.
