I was looking through some email today and saw a newsletter from ZDNet at the top of my inbox. Normally these don’t get my immediate attention, but for some reason, today… it did. There was a post from Mary Jo Foley (linked below) looking at the upcoming file system in Windows Server 8, ReFS. I [...]
Microsoft Adds Data Deduplication to NTFS in Windows 8
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Are You a Hypervisor Hugger or a Storage Stalwart?
November 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The time has come to take sides on the core question of storage for virtual servers: Do you want storage intelligence to live in the hypervisor or the array? Most administrators are already lining up on one side or the other, unintentionally casting their vote while the rest flounder. But the storage industry must wake up and embrace the divide.
Trust. It is an interesting thing in Active Directory.
September 23, 2011 By 1 Comment
This week has been interesting, mainly in that I was reminded about the simple things in Active Directory and how much harder they become when you dont pay them enough attention. Replication is much like Ron Burgundy – kind of a big deal. If you do not pay enough attention to replication between domain controllers in Active Directory, bad things happen.
Storage Migration Tools: RoboCopy
March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 and kicking tires
February 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Flexible IT and the Path to the Services Future
November 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’m an IT revolutionary. I talk all the time about the quaint backwards “state of the art” in enterprise IT, what with its (many) decades old protocols, paradigms, and practices. What we call modern is really just a charade of faked-out old-fashioned open systems infrastructure: Pretend servers talking to fake disks over frankenstein networking technology.
Cloud Fight – OpenStack Steps Up
October 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Much has been said about virtualization platform interoperability. VMware is constantly pushing forward with trying to achieve ANSI standards for common virtualization components and functions. One of which is the most useful… the virtual hard disk format. In theory, I should be able to take a virtual disk from my Hyper-V environment and import into my vSphere environment. I have seen this work on my workstation when I imported my Windows XP Mode drive into my Workstation setup!
The Enterprise IT Acquisition Game
September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today is the (a?) day of reckoning in the 3Par saga, with Dell widely expected to make a counter-offer higher than HP’s bid. But this mega deal, like the Data Domain war before it, sends a strong signal to the enterprise IT world: It’s open season on data storage companies! But the rising superpowers are also likely looking at networking as an area of expansion. The game is afoot!
Gestalt IT Seattle Tech Field Day – Day 2 Summary
July 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment