Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
Recently, HPE Nimble released new systems (the 20/40/60/80 line, replacing the 1000/3000/5000/7000/9000 ones).
I don’t cover press releases – you can find this elsewhere. I’d rather talk about the cool stuff.
Continue reading “New HPE Nimble Systems are Ready for SCM and NVMe”
It recently came to my attention that Dell is now advertising some kind of benchmark that shows one of their platforms can be faster than Nimble in some very specific test of their own concoction.
While I don’t doubt that’s possible (indeed, we could do it the other way around), it may be worthwhile investigating what’s prompting the attack.
I also wanted to point out the various technically fishy points of the benchmark.
Continue reading “When Terrified Vendors Attack: The Dell Edition”
Just a quick post since I’m getting inquiries regarding the status of my vital signs.
Yes, I’m alive, just very busy helping with the ongoing integration of Nimble Storage into HPE and all kinds of cool AI.
All kinds of training to be done all around, positioning guides to be written, strategy to plan, technology to design.