Archive for June, 2008

Keep Your Data for 200 Years – Why?

Courtesy of The Register, I followed their link to a company called Delkin (the data Belkin?) who are touting their premium Blu-Ray disks (BD-R) with a lifetime of 200 years (and 100 years for their DVD-R disks). Now, this all sounds wonderful; a “guaranteed protection over time” (whatever...
June 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Incipient Revisited

You will remember that I recently posted a comment about migration costs, specifically with relation to Incipient. My view was (and still is) that the majority of migration costs come from preparatory and remedial work rather than execution of the migration. Well, Incipient asked for the right of...
June 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

The Rise of SSDs

Sun recently announced that they will be putting solid state disks into all of their server and storage range of hardware. EMC already have solid state drives for DMX-4, which was announced in January this year. EMC have also stated that they think SSDs will reach a price parity with high end FC drives...
June 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

FC Enhancements

A comment posted to my previous blog entry reminds me of a requirement I’ve had for some time from Fibre Channel. In the “Good Old Days” in my first working life as a mainframe systems programmer, I could very easily see a breakdown of response time against each storage device on...
June 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Storage Migration Costs

I’ve not paid much attention to Incipient (their news page doesn’t provide an RSS feed, so there’s no chance of me seeing their press releases easily), but my attention was recently drawn to a recent release relating to their iADM and iNSP products (catchy names, those). Now, if you want to know...
June 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Ah this is so accurate…

As a contractor/consultant I can totally relate to this list; I’m sure many of you can too. _uacct = “UA-1104321-2″; urchinTracker();
June 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Simple is Good

I’ve been doing a lot of travelling recently (rather a lot in fact), mostly in Europe, with a little in the UK between airports. European trains are much better than their UK counterparts – they are reliable, clean, comfortable (note I didn’t claim they were fast) and their cost structure...
June 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Dealing With The Consequences

In a remarkable piece of coincidence, two WWII unexploded bombs were found today and caused air traffic delays. The first, at Stratford in east London, temporarily closed London City Airport. The second closed a runway at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. It’s amazing that over 60 years after these...
June 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More