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NetApp = UNIFIED STORAGE (since 2002)

Cell phones and photocopiers - The most iconic devices regularly used by flamboyant Heroes of Hollywood. Imagine James Bond using these devices few decades ago. People really thought either "wow" or crazy nuts! These devices deserves a a mention on historical perspective for changing the world.

Mobile Phones

Father of Cellular Phone - Martin Cooper

The first mobile phone was invented in 1973 at Motorola by Martin. He walked into the streets on New York with a 2Kg mobile device and the people in the streets were gaped at the sight of somebody walking and taking on a phone. His vision was for personal wireless communications. "People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973," he said. Today there are more mobile phone lines than the fixed lines.

Photo copiers

 

Art of Photocopying - Xerox

Photocopiers are 50 years old and it is taken for granted that any modern office will have one of them. It plays a significant roles in every office and home. Think about your degree certificates copies, Your copy of driving licenses or even bank receipts. Copiers are also taken for granted because it has been very successful. It took Carlson and Haloid many many years to develop a prototype for $2000 to manufacture in 1960's. For many including me, photocopying is known as Xerox.

Mobile phones and Photocopiers are in a different avatar today. They are a part of Unified revolution. Mobile phones are getting more and more Unified. IPhones and Google phones have made Unified communications a reality supporting phone, Email and other applications. Similarly All-in-one printers are very common today supporting Photocopying, Fax, Phone and Printers.

Drawing a similarity, NetApp invented the first Unified storage in 2002 and has been very successful in powering up many enterprise datacenters. NetApp Unified Storage supports SAN and NAS on the same array. NetApp innovation has always been focused to provide benefit for enterprise customers rather than just speeds and feeds. NetApp Unified storage significantly reduces cost and complexity, Storage efficiency features like deduplication and Thin provisioning reduces the storage capacity.

Historically Unified innovations have been very successful. Be it Iphones, All-in-one-printers and Swiss Knife. NetApp Unified storage is no different. After a decade since NetApp Unified innovation, many storage vendors are realizing the fact the Unified storage really makes sense in the enterprise datacenters.

You will hear a lot and lot of "I am unified" arrays in the future.

But Aptly NetApp = UNIFIED STORAGE since 2002

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Time to Imagine Virtually Anything

Recently I was watching some television show that showed some people with ESP power. ESP stands for Extra Sensory Power. These are special people who can wildly imagine anything. From predicting the next earthquakes, Tsunami's and even one's life expectancy. One of the ESP person took it to the heights of Imagination that he could visualize life in a planet that is 260 Million Kilometers away from our planet. He believes it is our next solar system and calls the planet as "Demigo". He describes it to be 14 times bigger than earth and pink in color.

You may wonder do I believe these stuff. Yes! I do believe in these super powers :)

These are not scientifically proven yet because science is slow. Hopefully science can catch up fast.

Take a drink before you read about this ESP Pussycat in real life.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jul/26/usa.science

When imagination goes wild, people think differently and the outcome is much better.

Look at your own personal stuff. Iphone, Google search, Yahoo Email or even a Motorcar for that instance. Someone thought differently and made things work. Inventions are always thought differently and changes life.

Some Enterprise customers buy IT infrastructures be it servers, network or storage in all silo'ed approach.
Just need to call few vendors and make them bid. Pick the optimum one and start working. Buying is probably the easiest task. Deploying and managing the IT architectures as per industry best practices is a real challenge.
Virtualization has just added one more feather to all enterprise challenge cap. If let go unnoticed the costs of deploying virtualization may appear attractive and the costs of operating a virtualized infrastructure will be continually spiraling.

Recently Cisco, VMware and NetApp joined forces to think differently and this is a innovative step in breaking the mundane IT architectures that are inefficient. The new architecture will serve a stepping stone of creating next generation dynamic datacenter's enabling cloud.

This architecture will also provide industry's first end-to-end secure multi-tenancy solution that will help build new shared infrastructures. The uniqueness of this union is the availability of complete end-to-end validated design guide and services associated. This capability helps customers realize the datacenter efficiency benefits immediately.

 

Some of the key benefits of the new architecture are
1) Highest Availability enabling highly resilient architectures
2) Secure Separation on Multi-tenancy with secure access control
3) Service Assurance to deliver consistent SLA's
4) Management end-to-end made simple

http://www.imaginevirtuallyanything.com

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