Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on some facts about data that sits in Storage Environments.
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Economic Realities
Depending on the age of the arrays and depending on the software sitting on the arrays and especially if the arrays were out of warranty periods; the maintenance costs are generally so high that it simply does not make economic...
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 4
Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on some fundamental questions around Storage Environments.
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 3
The IT Budgets of 2009: Continuing my posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA) and Storage Economics, this one focuses on the facts of IT - Storage Budgets of 2009.
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 2
Continuing the series blog post on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on the “IT - Storage World of 2009†and the requirements / importance of it around today’s overall Storage Strategy.
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 1
A series post related on importance of storage economics for your IT/Storage Environments.
Just another feature…
Wide-striping is now just another feature; it’s a very important feature but just another feature now. 3Par took wide striping and made it useable; EMC’s historic implementation using metas and hypers was painful and with the...
Storage Virtualisation and Commoditisation
HDS' Hu makes a point in his latest blog entry in that Storage Virtualisation allows the end-user to turn commodity disk into enterprise disk by sticking it behind a virtualisation appliance; in Hu's case, he'd deeply love that...
Sun Launches Their Own Cloud, But For Which Market?
While the bulk of Sun-related news this week relates to reported talks of a buyout by IBM, the company took a break from negotiations to introduce their own cloud computing and storage infrastructure, challenging Amazon, Google...
Bigger Blue?
IBM were always going to go acquisitive this year and it's no surprise to me that the first target appears to be Sun. As other commentators have already pointed out, this is not a reaction to Cisco's announcement on Monday but...