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Friday, July 15, 2011

Unified storage systems showdown: NetApp FAS vs. EMC VNX

When EMC Corp. rolled out its VNX and VNXe storage platform this year, it shone a bright light on unified storage systems and intensified its competition with NetApp.

NetApp and EMC aren’t the only vendors to offer unified storage -- most major vendors have systems that support multiple protocols -- but NetApp’s FAS and EMC’s VNX are the most talked about. They're also the most scrutinized and serve as the models that most people refer to when they discuss what is and isn’t true about unified storage platforms.

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Friday, July 1, 2011

FlexPod vs. Vblock: How the integrated IT stacks stack up

Integrated stacks are starting to gain traction in storage. They are mainly aimed at organizations that want preconfigured and pretested systems for highly virtualized environments. These stacks combine storage, hypervisors, networking and management as an alternative to building best-of-breed systems.

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