Archive for December, 2008

Storage Predictions for 2009

It’s the end of another year and of course time to the obligatory posts on predictions in the industry for the next 12 months. True to form, I’ve spent some time thinking and here are my top 5 ruminations for the coming year. EMC join SPC. EMC will finally have the epiphany we’ve...
December 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Do You Really Need a SAN – Of Course You Do!

The wacky boys at Forrester have a great new article posted relating to the requirement to have a Storage Area Network. Here’s a link to their post. Tony Asaro and Hu Yoshida have both posted on the subject already but I couldn’t resist having my 2 cents. SANs evolved for very good reasons;...
December 18th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt II

In my previous post I started the discussion on how cloud storage could actually be useful to organisations and not be simply for consumer use. Standards One of the big issues that will arise is the subject of standards. To my knowledge, there is no standard so far which determines how cloud...
December 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

HDS Play Catch Up

Second post today! So HDS have announced solid state disks. Here’s the post. They’re only 11 months behind EMC and once they’ve actually become available it will be nearly a full 12 months “late”. It’s interesting to note that HP haven’t (yet) made an...
December 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt I

Storagezilla was quick to turn a Twitter conversation into a PR opportunity for EMC this week. Have a read. As one of the originators of this conversation, I’d intended to blog on it but was slightly beaten to print. Never mind, I’ve got more content to add to the discussion. The original...
December 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

2V Or Not 2V (vendors that is)

Over on ITToolbox the age old subject of dual versus single vendor strategy has raised its head again. This time, the consensus, apart from yours truly, was that a single vendor strategy was best – mostly because it is easier to implement. I’m still of the opinion that a correctly...
December 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Storage Waterfall Revisited

A while back I presented a diagram showing how storage is lost throughout the provisioning process. I’ve added a few more items onto the diagram and heres version 2. The additions show reasons why storage is lost at various points in the cycle, for example, disks not not in use, hot spares,...
December 10th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

All I Want For Christmas…

In the words of Mariah Carey, I don’t want a lot for Christmas, I’ve got everything I need, but possibly not everything I want. Here’s my Crimble list for this year (in no particular order): MacBook Pro - I guess I should see what all the fuss is about. I’ve never been an...
December 9th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Testing Out IT Principles – With Children

I was driving my youngest son back from Beavers this evening and we were talking computers and games (he’s 6). He reminded me that some of his games won’t run on Vista which is why I’d installed dual booted XP on the kid’s machine. He asked me if I’d played “Age...
December 8th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Betamax

In case you don’t always go back and look at comments (and let’s face it, it’s not easy to track them), then have a look at Tony’s comment from my post yesterday. It’s good to see a bit of banter going on and that’s what HDS could do with. HDS have hardly developed...
December 4th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More
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