A few weeks ago I wrote a blog posting about Solid State Disk Drives (SSD’s) that generated a lot of interest so I thought readers might also be interested in an article that was recently published on Tom’s Hardware website.

This article is a review of 14 SSD drives.  It gives you a good overview of who the vendors are and what they have for offerings.  I think when you start to see roundups like this you can believe the technology is real and that it is beginning to commoditize.  I hope you find the article useful. 

This past Monday Akorri announced it’s support for Dell’s EqualLogic Storage Array.  This is important because this announcement gives Akorri the broadest capability of any virtual systems management company in the industry.  Supporting Equallogic gives BalancePoint complete coverage of most common storage arrays used in the data center.

How do I know that?  Well I haven’t seen any analysts studies on the subject but looking at our customer base and potential customers that I’ve had the pleasure to speak with I think I can firmly state that the most popular storage arrays deployed into virtual environments today are EMC CLARiiON, Dell Equallogic, NetApp FAS, and HP EVA.

These storage arrays all offer something very attractive to IT administrators who are deploying their virtual infrastructure…they are rock solid, well proven, good performing, cost effective arrays.

I’m looking forward to growing our Equallogic customer base.  By utilizing our Analytics and Modeling capability Equallogic customers will be assured that they are getting the most out of their investment.