VMware SRM software is just the last piece of the total data center recovery “machineâ€. Many organizations may be seeking the semblance of automated site fail over, but have they really considered in detail what it takes to...
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Is DMX The Worst Array for Wastage?
As part of my work with Storage Fusion, I'm reporting on capacity and utilisation figures for different array vendors. Part of this includes analysing exceptions and wastage. DMX and Symmetrix seem to have more issues than any...
New KB: How VMware Writes I/O to Disk
Mike DiPetrillo from VMware just blogged about a new VMware knowledge base article fosuced on how VMware writes I/O to disk. This is essential reading for any VMware admin, as it deals with each OS's I/O idiosyncracies.
Doing More (with the same or less)
Capital budgets are pretty tight this year and IT teams all over the globe are being to do more with the same or less. This is good in many ways and hopefully we will overcome some of the profligacy of the past but the...
Ready?
The announcements are starting to pile up; nothing dramatic yet tho' but we are probably at the start of the year when most Storage vendors refresh their main product lines and it's going to be interesting to see the variety...
New Possibilities With Open Source VMware VDI Client for Linux
You’ve probably already heard about VMware’s open source VDI client. VMware’s official announcement for the VMware View Open Client was released on February 4. Touted as the next step for creating a universal client to be...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Storage Automation
The first storage performance horseman is spindles: If you don’t have enough disk units, performance will suffer. I have been laying out storage on enterprise arrays since the dark ages, and one of the first lessons I learned...
The Difference Between “Integration” and “Frankenstein”
When is a solution integrated and when is it a Frankenstein-like mashup of tangled tech? Apparently, that line is crossed when it’s your competitor’s offering… In my time in the storage industry, I’ve seen enough franken...
Seagate Announces New Constellation Hard Drives
Seagate announced this week the release of their new Constellation hard drives. Compared to the Savvio range (which are high-performance, low form-factor), these drives are aimed at lower tier archiving solutions and will scale...
Storage Efficiency
So, I've been sitting here thinking that with the current economic distress everyone is looking to save money. In the storage business, this means an almost myopic focus on something called "storage efficiency". Everyone wants to...