We in the storage and server fields (not to mention Apple fans) have been watching ZFS with keen interest for a while. It holds great promise as the next-generation UNIX filesystem foundation, and Joerg Moellenkamp over at...
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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 announcement this week: TechTarget's (now non-PDF?) Storage magazine announced their Storage Products of the Year award for 2008. Without...
Data Migration Strategies – Part II
In the previous post, I discussed reasons for migration. This post will cover the next step; identifying the owners of storage resources. It may be hard to believe, but many organisations can’t identify all of their storage...
Storage Shangri-La
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...
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.