Stephen's blog entry about NAS strikes so many chords with me that I find it hard to disagree with very much he writes in the entry but I am going to disagree with the central premise/question; you should not ignore NAS if you...
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Why Do I Ignore NAS?
Why does network-attached storage (NAS) have such a poor reputation? This isn't what the vendors want to be talking about, but some recent product announcements and discussions led to this thought. IT folks as a whole don't trust...
The Four Pillars of Storage Management
I’m about to start a new series of posts discussing the whole process of Storage Management. I’m calling it the Four Pillars of Storage Management as there are 4 main components: Service, Operational, Commercial, and...
EMC Shouts VPLEX In A Crowded EMCWorld
Amid much fanfare and, EMC launched VPLEX today at EMCWorld 2010 in Boston. The company previously outlined the vision for globally-distributed federated storage, but today's announcement adds both meat and bone to that concept...
Show 2 — Attack of the PacketPushers
This is the second podcast by the PacketPushers crew. We’re slightly more prepared this week, and had more of an idea what to expect. Hopefully that’ll be evident in the podcast! Today Dan Hughes, Greg Ferro, and...
Iomega Graduates and Goes to Work with the ix12-300r
EMC's Iomega unit today released the rack-mount storage product we have all been waiting for. The new ix12-300r packs 12 drive bays, scaling from 4 TB all the way to 24 TB, and backs it with quad gigabit iSCSI, redundant power...
PowerCLI: A Simple VMware Backup Script
Lately I've been doing a lot of work in a lab environment. Some of the work I'm doing is quite important to me so I decided to workout a way I can backup my VM's onto a backup device. To my surprise this was pretty simple to do.
Bedtime Reading — EMC’s ISM Book
Whether your using iSCSI, FC SAN, NFS or even local storage, it's crucial to make sure you have your storage set up correctly to get the best performance, reliability and availability for your data. Fortunately I was given a copy...
This vendor is locking me in!
When you think about it, we all are subject to vendor lock-in all of the time. As soon as I decide to purchase my new mobile phone, I am usually tied to either the phone manufacturer or the carrier that is use. Sometimes I am...
Podcast 5: HP Roundtable at Tech Field Day
This week's Tech Field Day roundtable discussion focuses on the presentation given by HP at our Boston event. This presentation included a strategic overview from Tom Joyce, HP's new VP of StorageWorks Marketing, Milan Shetti Sr...