Duncan Epping of Yellow Bricks comments: Brilliant marketing slogan by the way (IBM) which has stuck around since the 70s and is now being used by many others. I wondered though… Did anyone ever get fired for buying Pure Storage? Or for buying Tintri? What about Nutanix? Or VMware Virtual SAN? Hold on, maybe someone […]
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Operational Efficiency (You’re not Facebook/Google/Netflix)
Duncan Epping of Yellow Bricks comments: Howard has a great point here. For some reason many people started using Google, Facebook or Netflix as the prime example of operational efficiency. Startups use it in their pitches to describe what they can bring and how they can simplify your life, and yes I’ve also seen companies […]
Why Queue Depth matters!
Duncan Epping of Yellow Bricks comments: A while ago I wrote an article about the queue depth of certain disk controllers and tried to harvest some of the values and posted those up. William Lam did a “one up” this week and posted a script that can gather the info which is then automatically shared […]
Hybrid, flash, converged storage, what’s next? Hybrid storage stack!?
Duncan Epping from Yellow Bricks comments: I saw a tweet pass by from PernixData and although I already knew the world of datacenter/storage design was changing it just really sank in. Over the last 5 years we have seen the world of storage change significantly. We have seen new types of storage being introduced like […]