Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) just bought Fabrik (SimpleTech and G-Technology). So is...
Author - Stephen Foskett
VMware Announces vExpert Awards
VMware has just announced the first round of vExpert Awardees, including Gestalt IT's own Rich...
Interested in ZFS? Check Out c0t0d0s0!
We in the storage and server fields (not to mention Apple fans) have been watching ZFS with keen...
Reacting to the 2008 Storage Products of the Year
The mainstream media is still digesting the Oscar awards, but we in storage had our own...
Let’s Talk Pricing
The third rail of enterprise IT is the shockingly opaque and flexible pricing schemes applied to...
New KB: How VMware Writes I/O to Disk
Mike DiPetrillo from VMware just blogged about a new VMware knowledge base article fosuced on how...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Storage Automation
The first storage performance horseman is spindles: If you don’t have enough disk units...
The Difference Between “Integration” and “Frankenstein”
When is a solution integrated and when is it a Frankenstein-like mashup of tangled tech...
Essential Reading for VMware ESX iSCSI Users!
If you use or are interested in VMware ESX 3.x and iSCSI, you simply must go read Chad Sakac’s...
Storage Utilization Remains at 2001 Levels: Low!
I’ve been talking about storage capacity utilization for my entire career, but the storage...