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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 documents. Who [...]
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, 69.5TB DMX3000 – 576 [...]
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 it’s good to [...]
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 [...]
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 more efficient [...]
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