This is post 9 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” You’ve collected a bunch of data, and hopefully done something about classifying it and only keeping the useful stuff, instead of hoarding all the data you can get your hands on just in case. Now what? Let’s assume that you have […]
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The Battle For Your Data Center’s Brain
This is post 8 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” The complex ecosystem of symbiotic, technologic, silicon-based organisms that is your datacenter: it’s the epicenter for your business, your mission, and your interactions with the world. Your applications, your data, your infrastructure, and a non-trivial amount of your capital, all end […]
End-to-End Data Management
This is post 7 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” In previous posts I’ve discussed the need to “move up the stack” with reference to the way we manage data. To recap, what we mean here is focusing less on the bits and bytes of how data is stored and moving […]
How To Classify Data
This is post 6 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” We previously discussed that keeping endless amounts of data is impractical and expensive, the magical promises of Big Data Boosters notwithstanding. If we’re not going to keep everything, then what do we keep? How do you decide what stays, and what […]
Data Is A Four-Letter Word
This is post 5 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” It’s no coincidence that data is a four letter word. And it’s a word that holds different meaning depending on your place in the organizational chart. Managers interpret data to mean things like budgets, schedules, and white papers. To counsel, data […]
Learn to Love The Data Not The Hardware
This is post 4 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” In my previous post I discussed the evolution of hardware management using the seasoned analogy of pets and cattle. It’s worth taking a step back and looking at what data we are creating and why, as this gives us insight into […]
Data Hoarders of the World
This is post 3 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” “Hoarding disorder is typified by persistent difficulties discarding possessions, resulting in significant clutter that obstructs the individual’s living environment and produces considerable functional impairment.”[i] Big data is an astoundingly powerful thing, if you believe the breathless boosterism emanating from some corners […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Storage
This is post 2 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” Thanks to a deluge of storage marketing in the last year or two, we have adopted the opinion that flash storage will push spinning disks out of the data center. We even picked up on the term “spinning rust” and “mechanical […]
Evolving Storage From Pets To Cattle
This is post 1 of 9 in the series “NexGen Storage ioControl Tech Talks” Since the financial crash of 2008, the predominant IT mantra has been to do “more with less” – perhaps it was said well before that too, because IT (and in particular storage) is on a growth curve that isn’t likely to […]