One of the topics I've often written and spoken about is thin provisioning. This series of 11 articles is an edited version of my thin provisioning presentation from Interop New York 2010. I hope you enjoy it! Thin provisioning is a topic that is interesting to me. Now, I have to warn you ahead … [Read more...]
Economic Truth
September 25, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Steve Duplessie posts on Cloud Economics and especially the economics of Cloud Storage, 20 TBs of storage from Amazon's S3 cloud will cost you $36,000 a year and that doesn't necessarily compare especially well with purchasing your own array. So do the economics of the Cloud storage scale, … [Read more...]
Flexible Thinking
July 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I think that there is some interesting discussion to be had from Hu's latest blog in response to my own comments and thoughts about whether storage virtualisation as demonstrated by the external storage virtualisation devices has a long-term future. The response is not really to do with … [Read more...]
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 9
April 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The end result Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this will be the final post. This post focuses on the end result of running an analysis in our Storage environment. Read the entire series of posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 1: Storage Resource … [Read more...]
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 7
April 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The Technical Case Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on the technical case on why analysis of your storage platforms is important and how it might help you discover inconsistencies in storage environments. Read the entire series of posts on Storage … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Maintenance Madness
April 24, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Despite working for a vendor, David Merrill has a habit of posting some very good entries full of common sense; I find myself nodding in agreement with much of what he posts. His latest couple of entries here and here had me nodding in agreement; it's not just the vendors who are guilty of some … [Read more...]
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 6
March 27, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Inconsistencies in Storage Environments Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on some facts about what causes and what are inconsistencies in storage environments. Read the entire series of posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 1: Storage … [Read more...]
Economic Realities
March 26, 2009 by 2 Comments
I found David Merrill's blog entry here on Squeezing (Easily) into Tight Jeans amusing. David is talking about a couple of his customers who were using various capabilities to reduce the amount of storage they needed; I suspect using techniques such as thin-provisioning and the ability of the USP-V … [Read more...]
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 3
March 25, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The IT Budgets of 2009 Continuing my posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA) and Storage Economics, this one focuses on the facts of IT Budgets of 2009. Read the entire series of posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 1: Storage Resource Analysis and Storage Economics Part 2: The … [Read more...]