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I am a long time data center denizen who currently focuses on storage and storage related issues. I have worked on both sides of the fence, for vendors as well as being the guy who had to impliment what they sold me. Finally, I've managed teams of UNIX, Windows, and Storage Admins.
I was wondering how long it would take before these three decided to get together and try to push out the competition. For a customer that hasn’t really done anything with Virtualization due to the perceived risk with implementation this would be a …
What’s the real cost of storage? I get asked this question all the time, and it’s so difficult to answer because it really does depend on so many factors from storage team to storage team. What’s really surprising to me is that I’m being asked the que…
Cloud ComputingI don’t know about you, but I’ve spent a lot of time reading about “Cloud Computing” lately. A lot of space has been devoted to the topic in the blogosphere, that’s for sure. Some people think it’s the “next big thing”, others say not o…
So, I’ve been sitting here thinking that with the current economic distress everyone is looking to save money. In the storage business, this means an almost myopic focus on something called “storage efficiency”. Everyone wants to get the most “bang for…
I have spent a lot of time lately talking with some of my coworkers, friends, etc. on the topic of wide striping. This topic keeps coming up since there are now a number of vendors selling storage arrays with SATA drives that claim to have “the same pe…
So, I haven’t blogged in a while. I guess I should make all of the usual excuses about being busy (which is true), etc. But the fact of the matter is that I really haven’t had a whole heck of a lot that I thought would be of interest, certainly there …
We are running out of places to put things.
Data continues to grow at a frightening rate. According to an IDC study there was about 281 Exabytes of data stored on disk in 2007 word wide. This data is growing at CAGR of about 70%. At this rate, in 3 ye…
Folks,After re-reading yesterday’s posting, I had one of those “well DUH” moments. It seems obvious now, but it hit me like a ton of bricks. Block Storage Virtualization (BSV) is creating a sea change for how people are going to buy their storage. Once…
For my first posting I really want to talk about block storage virtualization. I really think that 2008 will be the year that people start to roll this out in production in a serious way. Why? It’s the money stupid!Yes, that’s right, with the economy g…
