Cloud ComputingI don't know about you, but I've spent a lot of time reading about "Cloud Computing" lately. A lot of space has been devoted to the topic in the blogosphere, that's for sure. Some people think it's the "next big...
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Next Generation Celerra — Unified Storage with Deduplication
EMC today announced its next generation Celerra NAS. EMC is pushing the technology towards unified storage, deduplication and virtual provisioning giving away some bells and whistles at no cost.
Extreme Cash Cow – Redux
What are the challenges that SRM tools face? Is the problem one of scale and complexity? If you look at what we expect the SRM tool to do, we expect currently expect it to understand our storage environment end-to-end. So look at...
Data Migration Strategies – Part I
Understanding the reasons for migration is a great place to start in developing a strategy. Seasoned IT professionals will know that change for change’s sake is not a good thing; “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it†–...
Deal or No Deal?
Stephen has a post here about pricing, about getting close to your vendor and developing a relationship with just a few trusted partners. Nice idea but in any relationship there needs to be some tension to keep it fresh and...
Let’s Talk Pricing
The third rail of enterprise IT is the shockingly opaque and flexible pricing schemes applied to hardware, software, and services. How much does a high-end switch or storage array cost? Are you getting ripped off on your...
HP’s RAID 6 (ADG – Advanced Data Guarding)
HP Storage Products traditionally have support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5 and now RAID-6 ADG.
NetApp’s RAID-DP (Enhanced RAID 6)
Continuing the quest on RAID 6, with my previous post related to HDS’s RAID 6, here is a post about NetApp’s RAID-DP (Double Parity - Enhanced RAID 6).
Hitachi’s (HDS) RAID 6
Hitachi (HDS) has been one of the pioneers in implementing RAID 6 in their storage products. This technology briefing covers HDS' implementation of RAID 6 and compares it to their RAID 5 implementation.
Scalability in the cloud
We think of web apps as what belongs in the “cloudâ€. Virtualization is changing this so that both small and enterprise apps are a fit. To me there can be an internal cloud and an external cloud. As virtualization continues to...