Assault on Benchmarking

November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking a bit about benchmarking and benchmarketing; pretty everyone agrees that SPC is a very poor representation of real world storage performance but at the moment, it’s the only thing that most of the market supports with one key exception. So I thought I’d come up with my own, so let me introduce the SSAC.

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Manage Data Not Storage

October 15, 2010 By 1 Comment

With Automated Tiering solutions now rapidly becoming de rigeur, well in announcement form anyway; perhaps it’s time for us to consider again what is going to go wrong and how much trouble the whole thing is going to cause some people.

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Agile IT leads to Agility?

October 5, 2010 By 1 Comment

Leadership, management and agility are becoming important watchwords in the role of IT delivery and it is these three concepts which need to drive any IT organisation forward over the next decade or so. It is the third of these that is probably the most important.

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Managing Migration Makes Martin Mad!

August 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

So we can thin-provision, de-dupe and compress storage; we can automate the movement of the data between tiers; now one single array may not have all these features today but pretty much every vendor has them road-mapped in some form or another. Storage Efficiency has been the watch-word and long may it continue to be so.

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With Abundant Good Cheer

August 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

As we move from a time of IT as a scarce and controlled resource to a time where IT is seen as an abundant and easily available resource; we need to consider what this means to us in Enterprise IT. Is abundance a good thing and a power for good or does it bring with it issues?

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Infrastructure is Software

July 12, 2010 By 1 Comment

Chuck has just written a blog which was very similar to a blog that I was working and I agree with a lot of what he says but I’d take it a lot further and there are some interesting conclusions and potentials along the way which could open the market for interesting innovation going forward.

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Why I Don’t Ignore NAS?

May 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Stephen’s blog entry about NAS strikes so many chords with me that I find it hard to disagree with very much he writes in the entry but I am going to disagree with the central premise/question; you should not ignore NAS if you work in a Storage Team. You may hate it but you should not ignore it.

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Driven by Past Policy

August 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Every now and then, I like to annoy people and point out that much that we are talking about as the future in Open Systems has been done before. And today is one of those days!

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Data Management – Industrial Light and Magic

August 14, 2009 By 5 Comments

Too often we are backing up when we should be archiving. We generate so much content which is pretty much Write Once Read Never but it sits there just in case; getting backed-up time and time again whereas it should just go straight into the archive or certainly get moved after a number of days into the archive. Not only will it help with your back-ups, it will save you money.

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