We all agree that EFDs have a place in the storage infrastructure of the future but we also have to ask ourselves what is this infrastructure is going to look like? If we look at some of the press releases and comments with...
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Netapp and Efficiency – Managing Perception
A quick discussion last night on Twitter got me thinking about the way technology is perceived in the industry at large. In particular, the discussion related to NetApp and in my usual facetious way I said I wouldn’t quote...
Microsoft Recognizes FCoE With Logo Program
Although there is no word on a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) initiator in the vein of their wildly successful iSCSI offering, Microsoft announced today that they are will be creating a logo program with test requirements for...
How Big Is It?
Sometimes I think storage vendors use a special type of man-ruler when measuring the size of their bits and bytes; especially when it comes down to working out how much storage their array can support. Please note, this is not...
Protocols, Religions and Heresy!
I've just come back from a NetApp training course; good course and recommended for anyone who wants to pick up some storage fundamentals, it covers all the NetApp bases and by the end of it, you should be fairly confident to do...
Wire-Speed 10 Gb iSCSI, Anyone?
Along with many tidbits about storage advances in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, this WinHEC presentation by Microsoft's Suzanne Morgan demonstrated that the combination of the Windows iSCSI Initiator and NetApp FAS 3070 filer...
Storage Layout — Why care?
Why should you care about how you lay your storage out? Maybe because it’s your job or because it’s the right thing to do. Perhaps it’s because your application performance isn’t acceptable or your boss...
Fishworks Simulator Hint and other VSA stuff
The Fishworks Simulator has been driving me a bit nuts; I couldn't get ESXi to reliably use a Fishwork's iSCSI LUN as a data-store; it would consistently hang whilst installing an Virtual Machine. I coudn't see anything wrong but...
How to Resize ZFS
If you've been experimenting with ZFS, as we have, you've been struck by some of its limitations in terms of flexibility, but there is one way to expand a zpool, as demonstrated by Harry D in a two-part blog post.
Cloud Storage: Review – Zumodrive
Over the last few weeks I've been using Zumodrive, another cloud storage offering. This week Zumodrive released their iPhone client, which enables storage to be synchronised to an iPhone or iPod Touch device.