Based on a review of all-solid state storage systems, it may be time for IT professionals to re-think their strategy regarding the lifespan of storage systems. The storage system lifespan is a critical part of a storage strategy for scheduling...
Read More »Recently, I inadvertently became involved in a tweet fest, kicked off because a group of people believed I was attacking their protocol of choice. To devoted followers, a protocol is akin to religion, something that requires devotion and defense at...
Read More »I’m reading some handwriting on the wall. It says that revenue growth for the storage array platforms commonly used in enterprise data centers will be hard to come by in 2014. I say this knowing full well that more data is being...
Read More »I’m surprised to hear from IT people that storage vendors are still using “speeds and feeds” in their sales pitches. Salesmen for these companies talk about how fast and how big the storage systems could be. When I asked what...
Read More »The computer storage industry seems interesting to many on the outside. Fellow engineers I associate with who are in different disciplines often ask pointed questions when we get together. The most consistent questions are why there are so many storage startups,...
Read More »When talking to IT professionals about encryption, I often notice a lack of understanding about information security. It often comes as a surprise that encryption inside of a disk storage system only protects data when someone steals the disk drives...
Read More »Tis the season for forecasting as pundits prove their worth by predicting the future—at least into the following year. As an industry analyst I often feel compelled to write these, usually with little regard for what I said the year...
Read More »I’ve spent a lot of time talking to IT clients and vendors about archiving and backup, and these discussions made me realize there is a real problem with the terminology used today. For IT clients, the terms have different meanings depending on the...
Read More »Within enterprise data centers, Hadoop is a shiny new toy—the same place where the mainframe is sometimes thought of as a dinosaur. Yet the two have some things in common. Both are used as large scale, high performance batch processing...
Read More »The premise of doing data reduction of stored information is that more data can be put in the available physical space. Storing more data in a fixed amount of space drives down the price of storing data and gives added...
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