The Technical Case: Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on the technical case on why analysis of your storage platforms is important and how it might help you discover inconsistencies...
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Is Licensing Turning vSphere Into Vista?
Although the technical details of VMware's version 4 product (dubbed the vSphere family) were known ahead of time, the product's licensing model came as a surprise. Rather than go with the "base product + options" approach used...
Some Symmetrix V-Max Discussion
I had written a blog post about expectations with EMC DMX next generation technology, and did come quite close to predicting what the new set of architecture would look like, including Directors, Cache, IOPS, Drives types...
Keep Your Storage Array for 10 Years And Get a £2000 Tradein
OK, I think it was cars the UK government were offering the discount on, not storage arrays. It goes like this; the government has set aside £300m - you trade in a car over 10 years old and get £2000 off the cost of a new one...
Maintenance Madness
We often talk about trying to make capital acquistions cost neutral in less than eighteen months; a reduction in Opex to offset the capital cost. Vendors are often complicit in this, as I mentioned in my previous entry, inflated...
PowerPath To The Virtual People
Hiding in the shadow of the huge VMware vSphere 4 announcement was a very interesting introduction by EMC: PowerPath/VE. As I mentioned in my post on storage changes in vSphere 4, PowerPath/VE plugs into the new pluggable storage...
Storage Changes in the VMware vSphere 4 Family
VMware officially launched their next-generation (version 4) enterprise family of products today under the “vSphere 4″ name. As I’ve been doing for the last few major ESX releases, I’m focusing this post on the storage...
Investment Strategies and Virtualisation
Many companies are working on a three-five year refresh cycle, but should this be increased to seven? What needs to happen to make this so?
VMware’s cloud strategy
It’s obvious VMware and virtualization are playing a huge role in cloud computing from the perspective of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). VMware’s lead Cloud Architect, Mike Dipetrillo, was gracious enough to provid some...
Monofunctional or Multifunctional – Cheap always WINS
Voice network were monofunction. Data networks are multifunction. Storage Networks are monofunctional, want to bet Data Networks will handle Storage ?