I’ve been talking about storage capacity utilization for my entire career, but the storage industry doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere. Every year or so, a new study is performed showing that half of storage capacity in the...
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IBM XIV Could Be Hazardous to Your Career
So, I haven't blogged in a while. I guess I should make all of the usual excuses about being busy (which is true), etc. But the fact of the matter is that I really haven't had a whole heck of a lot that I thought would be of...
Who Will Capture the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Crown?
Today, Brocade announced that it has completed its acquisition of Foundry Networks. This is just the latest move in the strategic game to control the next generation of Ethernet, and possibly all local connectivity, including...
Where Will Virtualization of Data Center Infrastructure Take Us?
Virtualization of IT systems decouples physical infrastructure from logical resources, hiding complexity and enabling new capabilities. However, not all potential benefits of virtualization have meaningful value outside IT...
Of Emulated Fibre Channel, Virtualization, And The Right Tool For The Job
All enterprise storage arrays “emulate†Fibre Channel drives to one extent or another, and using the wrong tool for the job will always lead to trouble.
VMware View 3.0 perspective from the implementation angle
On 12.02.08 VMware announced the general availability of their latest version of VDI products and moved a step closer to fulfilling it’s vClient initiative discussed at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas earlier this year. The new...
Explaining Virtualization With Golf Clubs
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I was playing golf with my father when we had a conversation that lead to me trying to explain what virtualization is all about. I’m embellishing the details a little, but it went something...
Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) — Intel Example
A reader named Tom commented on my Matrix to Determine VMotion Compatibility by Processor post today asking “has VMotion evolved at all to the point where differences between Intel chips are less of an issue than they were...
The Future of storage, or is the disk drive dead?
We are running out of places to put things. Data continues to grow at a frightening rate. According to an IDC study there was about 281 Exabytes of data stored on disk in 2007 word wide. This data is growing at CAGR of about 70%...
Storage Sea Change
Folks,After re-reading yesterday's posting, I had one of those "well DUH" moments. It seems obvious now, but it hit me like a ton of bricks. Block Storage Virtualization (BSV) is creating a sea change for how people are going to...