Author: Hans De Leenheer

HP and DELL teaming to beat the entire storage market

According to a recent Gartner Report on the storage market (march 9th), EMC stays the biggest and grows faster then others. Then new big blue had […]

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Hey Hey, I wanna be a Rockstar

Today I got this really short but AWESOME e-mail message: You have been added as a member of: Group: DELL TechCenter Rockstars Total members: 14 […]

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HP ProLiant Gen8 | technical deepdive

Last month HP launched new generation ProLiant servers as Gen8. The day after we allready had a in depth Q&A about the new technologies with […]

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Storage that grows cheaper

Look at the storage you bought 3 years ago and was supposed to last for at least 5 years. Did it? Probably not. It has […]

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HP P4900 SSD Lefthand – Bloggers podcast

A few weeks ago HP launched their new kid on the ‘block’, the P4900. It is an SSD-only box in the P4000 (Lefthand) family. There are two models: […]

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HP path(ways) to the Cloud

Last December at HP Discover we had some insights in the Cloudsystem Matrix HP had build. We saw that they not only took care of provisioning storage […]

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Fluid is like making your data dance | #DellStorageforum

The following is my contribution to a German Social Media site called “XING” concerning Dell Storage Forum London of january 2012. I somehow forgot to […]

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Power savings with new DELL PowerEdge Gen12 servers

Last week we had the HP Gen8 server release, yesterday we had DELL 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers release. There are many features both vendors have […]

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when Lightning strikes … the fire (fud) arises

Last week, EMC officially announced VFCache, fka Project Lightning. To be short EMC puts an PCIe Flash Card in the server that handles read cache […]

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VEEAM Community Podcast #53 – Storage FUD

Last week there was a discussion on TWITTER about the sizing of storage. If you want to compare products you start with how much capacity […]

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The Company Library 2.0?

As it should be at a self-respecting tech company, we have a library at every floor. If somebody wants a new book, we just ask […]

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RDP on View4.5 versus PCoIP on View5

CASE:  VDI environment at customer site with an average user base of 300 clients. Issues: performance (duuuh!) Consultancy: January 2011: dear customer, buy more spindles please! January […]

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