This is the final post in a series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies. Previous posts: Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – PartI Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – PartII Enterprise...
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HP Acquires Scale-Out NAS Maker, IBRIX
HP woke up the IT world this morning by announcing their acquisition of IBRIX, a maker of scale-out file servers. The purchase will presumably be integrated with HP's existing clustered file system technology acquired with...
Why you need to be serious about Business Continuity
This is no joke. Right now southern Indiana is under water. Some organizations I have worked with are fine but Columbus Regional Hospital and many others aren’t. Their data center was in a basement (which isn’t rare) and took...
EMC Clariion RAID-6 requirements and limitations
In this post, we will discuss all requirements and limitations that are associated with EMC Clariion RAID-6 Implementation.
Data growth
One thing I’ve noticed in all this talk about explosive information growth is how most vendors are sticking to a strategy of how to store it and manage it. A lot of these vendors make a lot of money storing content but I’m...
Sync or Async Replication?
The question of whether or not to do synchronous or asynchronous replication between storage arrays does not come up often but I suspect it will as more and more people expand their business continuity infrastructure. It’s an...
Data Migration Strategies — Part IV
This is a continuing series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies. Previous posts: Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – PartI Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – PartII Enterprise...
Flexible Thinking
Hu Yoshida talks about an all too familiar case where storage decisions are made locally by the Business Units and the procurement strategy does not take account of the long-term health of the group; ongoing OpEx costs are not...
The Wide Striping Debate
I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning. Here are some of the highlights: First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether...
Set the Wide Stripes Free
There have been a couple of articles recently on the HDS blogs about HDP; Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning is HDS' thin provisioning offering and like all of the thin-provisioning, it also offers wide-striping. I am not going to get...