by dave on August 26, 2008
So you’re reading this at 12:01AM on Tuesday, August 26th…to paraphrase “Captain Awesome” from Chuck (on NBC), “Early morning group hug? AWESOME!”
Anyhow, let’s get straight to the point here: the NX4 is here. It has arrived in all of its SAS/SATA disk goodness. It brings with it CIFS/NFS capabilities, iSCSI for IP-based block level access, and 4Gb/s Fibre Channel for those moments where massive bandwidth and low latency are priorities. Sounds good, huh? Let’s toss in IP-based and Fibre replication facilities, auto volume management (for thin provisioning), and writable Celerra snaps and you’ve rounded out the solution completely. Did I mention that you’re going to layer this on top of the category-busting (sales-wise) AX4-5? [click to continue...]
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by dave on August 6, 2008
Is it just me or have we been waiting for this for a while? ;) Today is officially the EMC Clariion CX4 public GA (general availability) date. Good news: they’re shipping TODAY! No paper launches, folks…this is immediate availability. The other good news: you get to do more with your storage; faster, cheaper, stronger, more flexible, etc. Let me rip through some highlights for you:
a.) Cache and SP Processor increases. Across the board, processor “speeds” and cache sizes have been increased. Now, this may appear somewhat odd in that the CX4-120, for example, only has two dual core 1.2ghz processors, but, when you consider that the onboard L2 cache is greater in size (and Woodcrest processors were HANDILY more powerful than the older Nocona Xeons), it actually has more innate processing power than the previous generation processors. Cache sizes, when coupled with the 64 bit FLARE OS for the array, allow for better allocation and utilization within the array.
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by dave on August 3, 2008
Small children, much to my chagrin, do NOT adjust to time changes as well as I thought. 530am this morning (west coast) and I’m already trying to scrounge breakfast for my rabid progeny. Scary, eh?
where’s the coffee?!?!?!?!?!?!
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One of the things I do in my spare time is develop rendering systems for a client in another country. The cool thing about this is that I’m able to use cutting-edge AMD processors and platforms from Tyan and nVidia in order to accomplish these goals.
I just found out that one of my rendering systems was used to process the following Coca-Cola commercial for the 2008 Summer Olympics!!! There is a little special trick to this system, however, that warrants a closer look. [click to continue...]
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So, it’s been awhile since we last did one of these posts. To that end, let’s dive in and see what people are looking for these days.
Search Term(s): EMC CX4, Clariion CX4, EMC Clariion CX4
No suprises here, but then again, I can’t talk about the CX4 just yet. Suffice it to say, I’ll be prepping a few auto-posts on the CX4 (and another product that may be announced during the same timefram) to give you a high level overview of such. There IS a post out there @ Block and Files that is somewhat correct but….somewhat off. ;) You’ll get the “truth” on Monday.
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