Now that we have just finished an election where special interest groups seeking to control government through their proxies spent billions of dollars marketing campaigns to make negative claims about competitors, we should think about the lesson this has taught...
Read More »Defining IT with software is assumed to be a disruptive force. Reduce the cost of infrastructure by throwing out the high cost, purpose-built and proprietary hardware. Replace it with commodity priced-white boxes that are transformed into server, networking, and storage...
Read More »The storage industry has made a quantum leap in performance and latency with solid-state storage. Now storage networking technologies are playing catch-up so applications can utilize the maximum performance and low latency that solid-state technology offers. New fabric capabilities that increase performance and scale...
Read More »Whose making the storage decisions now? Five years ago it was pretty straight forward. The person buying storage was the Storage Architect, influenced by the Storage Admin with a budget approved by the direct line bosses, depending on how much was...
Read More »Last week, NetApp chose its Insight customer/partner conference to make a number of product announcements that, taken together, mark a multifaceted expansion into public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments. At the heart of these announcements is NetApp’s Data Fabric strategy that marks another milestone in...
Read More »The capacity utilization for storage is one area where storage vendors have made a lot of improvements. Advanced features such as storage pooling, thin provisioning, and storage virtualization have introduced greater efficiencies for using storage capacity. Still, trying to understand capacity utilization can be...
Read More »The term access method is frequently used to identify types of I/O in open systems. Many who use it probably don’t understand the historical context for what has been known as an access method for over 50 years. In open systems, the...
Read More »To my surprise, I have been seeing storage performance results reported using server benchmarks and their associated server metrics. Server benchmarks are specifically designed to measure the maximum performance of the server -- NOT the storage. Even if external storage...
Read More »It seems clear that all solid-state technology will become common in primary storage systems soon. In our IT client engagements, we see many companies including the transition to all solid state in their storage strategies. As with many new technologies, there are...
Read More »[caption id="attachment_11341" align="alignleft" width="187"] Weakest link[/caption] Several weeks ago I penned a blog on “Converged, Is It a Fad or Real” regarding the adoption of Converged Systems. This spawned a discussion amongst some vendor sales and marketing teams in regards...
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