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 all been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 of Mythology” when I [...]
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 [...]
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