Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 5

March 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on some facts about data that sits in Storage Environments.

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Just another feature…

March 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Wide-striping is now just another feature; it’s a very important feature but just another feature now. 3Par took wide striping and made it useable; EMC’s historic implementation using metas and hypers was painful and with the large arrays of today it becomes a full time job to performance manage an array. 3Par made it easy and much kudos to them for doing so. I think 3Par’s legacy will be the ease of management that they have brought to the Enterprise array (and thin provisioning).

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Planning for Virtual Infrastructure: Avoid the Pitfalls

March 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Virtualization is seen as the technology that makes it possible to do more with less, but there are many pitfalls to consider when virtualizing server infrastructure. This article suggests planning decisions to be considered that, if overlooked, could ruin the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the return on on investment (ROI) expected from this virtual infrastructure.

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Netapp and Efficiency – Managing Perception

March 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A quick discussion last night on Twitter got me thinking about the way technology is perceived in the industry at large. In particular, the discussion related to NetApp and in my usual facetious way I said I wouldn’t quote NetApp and efficiency in the same sentence (whoa, I just did!).

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Expectations with new Generation of DMX Technology

February 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

There has been a big chatter about the next generation of EMC machines. After the initial release of DMX-3’s in 2005 and then the DMX-4’s in 2007, next generation DMX is almost due now. Here is my wish list or expectations on the new DMX Platform.

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V is for value??

February 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Put NetApp in because you want to use NetApp but don’t put it in to virtualise your existing environment unless you are prepared for a whole lot of work. If you simply want to virtualise and build a consolidated pool of disk, you might well be better looking at SVC or USP-V.

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