It seems that the world is moving to Exchange for email messaging. Unfortunately there are some of us still using Lotus Notes/Domino.
As a messaging product, it seems to me to be reasonably efficient; our Domino servers can support upwards of a thousand users, perhaps 1-2TB of Notes mailboxes. Domino stores the mailboxes as [...]
As pointed out by Richard, my WWN decoder stopped working when I redid my website. Here’s a new link; http://www.brookend.com/html/resources/wwndecoder.asp.
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Implementing a storage tiering strategy is a big thing these days. Everyone should do it. If you don’t then you’re not a “proper” storage administrator. Being serious and moving away from the hype for a second, there is a lot of sense in implementing tiering. It comes down to 1 thing – cost. If disk [...]
I had a bit of banter following a post I made on ITToolbox earlier in the week. The question was posed as to why major disk array vendors (other than Netapp) don’t produce performance statistics. There are benchmarks; the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation and Storage Performance Council for instance. However SPEC [...]
I was invited last week to speak at the first (of hopefully) many HDS User Forums in the UK. The subject was Storage Resource Management and I talked on the subject and my thoughts for about 30 minutes. One slide generated the most interest and I’ve included it here. It shows [...]
I’ve spent the last few weeks being heavily involved in a storage performance issue. Unfortunately I can’t discuss the details as they’re too sensitive (in fact, I can’t even mention the TLA vendor in question), however it did make me think more about how we validate a storage architecture design will actually work.
As part [...]
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