Why do we care about thin provisioning? Because storage is not getting cheaper. If you went to buy a disk ten years ago, you’re going to spend about the same as would today, but you’re going to get a lot more capacity – a lot more capacity! The fact that we have terrible utilization of enterprise resources is really not helping us, and it’s not getting any better. It hasn’t improved because they are “doing storage” the same way.
Economic Truth
September 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Flexible Thinking
July 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Hu Yoshida talks about an all too familiar case where storage decisions are made locally by the Business Units and the procurement strategy does not take account of the long-term health of the group; ongoing OpEx costs are not born by individual business units and become the problem of the IT department. The concept and value of shared infrastructure was not really understood by the Business.
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 9
April 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 7
April 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Is Licensing Turning vSphere Into Vista?
April 27, 2009 By 2 Comments
Although the technical details of VMware’s version 4 product (dubbed the vSphere family) were known ahead of time, the product’s licensing model came as a surprise. Rather than go with the “base product + options” approach used by many software products, VMware decided on a flat tiered pricing scheme. Both approaches have their fans and detractors, but the details of VMware’s system left many off guard. Has VMware pushed the tiered model too far, eliminating flexibility and forcing enterprise customers to purchase pricey top-tier licenses? The Gestalt IT staff put our heads together to think the matter through.
Maintenance Madness
April 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We often talk about trying to make capital acquistions cost neutral in less than eighteen months; a reduction in Opex to offset the capital cost. Vendors are often complicit in this, as I mentioned in my previous entry, inflated maintenance costs mean that is often cheaper to refresh and take the bundled maintenance offered with a new system than to continue to pay maintenance on the legacy kit.
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 6
March 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Economic Realities
March 26, 2009 By 2 Comments
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 3
March 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment