Martin "Storagebod" Glassborow suggests two reasons EMC reversed course on virtualizing behind the VMAX: Maintaining margin on controllers and adapting to a flash-filled world. Both are reasonable ideas... The speed of change in the spinning rust market appears to be slowing, certainly the … [Read more...]
Thin Provisioning: Playing the Telephone Game
February 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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! I began by introducing the core problem: Storage isn’t getting any cheaper due … [Read more...]
Virtualization and High Bandwidth Datacenter–How the Datacenter Landscape Is Changing
December 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
They times… they are-a-changin’, right?! The view of the traditional datacenter is a-changin’ right along with it. My participation in #TechFieldDay sure drove that home. The traditional datacenter is comprised of servers, network, and storage. We have all seen major changes in server … [Read more...]
V(per)PLEXed?
May 13, 2010 by 1 Comment
So we have VPLEX and despite some scratching of heads as to what it is; it is really quite simple, 'storage access is further decoupled from storage physicality' And this really is nothing especially new; decoupling the storage access from storage physicality has been going on for some time. … [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 Virtualisation and Commoditisation
March 20, 2009 by 2 Comments
HDS' Hu makes a point in his latest blog entry in that Storage Virtualisation allows the end-user to turn commodity disk into enterprise disk by sticking it behind a virtualisation appliance; in Hu's case, he'd deeply love that to be USP. I think in many ways his idea gets to the core about what … [Read more...]