Storage Management: Aperi – It's all over

It looks like the open storage management project Aperi has finally been put to rest. See this link. Storage Resource Management is in a woeful state. SNIA with their SMI-S initiative have failed to deliver anything of value. I’ve posted multiple times here and here about how bad things are....

January 28th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Personal Computing: Mangatars

It seems to be all the rage to change your Twitter image to a Manga avatar or Mangatar. Well, here’s mine. No doubt there will be plenty of people who will claim I’ve taken some artistic liberties, but I can’t answer for the lack of “features” in the software to fully...

January 26th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Using USP for Migrations

Thanks to Hu Yoshida for the reference to a previous post of mine which mentioned using virtualisation (USP, SVC, take your pick) for performing data migrations. As Hu rightly points out, the USP, USP-V, NSC55 and USP-VM can all be used to virtualise other arrays and migrate data into the USP as part...

January 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Cloud Storage: Review – Dropbox

Over the last few weeks I’ve been using a product called Dropbox. This nifty little tool let’s you sync up your files from anywhere and across multiple platforms. It’s a perfect example of Cloud Storage in action. The Problem Keeping data in sync between multiple devices is a real...

January 23rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Off Topic: Dropping TweetDeck Refresh Rate

Slightly off topic and apologies for it, but I’ve been using Twitter for some time now and I normally use TweetDeck rather than the standard interface (although on the iPhone I use Tweetie). As follower numbers have increased, I’m finding one minute updates a distraction so I’ve...

January 21st, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Personal Computing: MacBook Day 3

I’ve only just picked up my MacBook for the day; too much real work do to! Seriously though, my next issue is to decide how to edit my standard word and spreadsheet documents. I’ve installed the latest version of OpenOffice and it works fine. At least, it appears to work fine on simple...

January 19th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Migrating Petabyte Arrays

Background The physical capacity of storage arrays continues to grow at an enormous rate, year on year. Using EMC as a benchmark, we can see that a single array has grown over the years; Symmetrix 3430 – 96 drives, 0.84TB Symmetrix 5500 – 128 drives, 1.1TB Symmetrix 8830 – 384 drives,...

January 19th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Personal Computing: MacBook Day 2

So, second day with my MacBook and I’ve started to look at application transparency between Mac and Windows. On a positive note, I managed to get DropBox working (easily) and MindManager for Mac – all my mind maps are directly compatible. I didn’t expect I would have a problem but...

January 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Personal Computing: MacBook Day 1

For those who don’t follow me on Twitter, today I “upgraded” my laptop to a shiny new MacBook. If you are interested, it’s the 2.4Ghz version with 4GB of RAM. Enough of the specifications, how am I finding it so far? I’m reminded of the time, many years ago (15+) I...

January 17th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Where's All the Data Gone?

Eric Savitz over at Tech Trader has an interesting article today. Demand at Seagate is down and consolidation of the industry is expected. However as recently as March last year EMC was telling us how storage growth just keeps on spiralling upwards. So what’s happening? Are we becoming inherently...

January 13th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

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