Over the last few weeks I’ve been using Zumodrive, another cloud storage offering. This week Zumodrive released their iPhone client, which enables storage to be synchronised to an iPhone or iPod Touch device.
There was an interesting question posed this afternoon by Ditchboy on ITToolbox. The gist of the question was why Enterprise storage is so expensive, when 1TB drives are less than £100 a piece. It’s a good question and something I’m asked quite often.
To us seasoned professionals, the answer may be [...]
It may be hard to believe, but many organisations can’t identify all of their storage users. Developing a migration strategy requires knowing all of your customers and building your relationship with them.
I recently posted on the issue of migrating data from large Enterprise storage arrays. The post covered a summary of the migration steps, with some brief discussion on calculating costs. In this series of posts, I will discuss migration strategies in more detail, covering the major steps in developing and implementing an ongoing Enterprise Data Migration Strategy.
Beth Pariseau had an interesting comment today regarding the use of Cloud Storage API standards, following on from a SNIA summit on the subject.
As usual, SNIA have got a hold of the wrong end of the stick. Standardizing on Amazon’s API is just crazy. In fact, at this stage, attempting to create [...]
Storagebod had a great comment on the use of Flash Drives in Enterprise arrays. I’d agree entirely that the vendors have bolted them into existing hardware and as a consequence they’re not working to their most efficient.
Here’s a prediction – an array which works on fixed “memory”pages that can be [...]
As part of my work with Storage Fusion, I’m reporting on capacity and utilisation figures for different array vendors. Part of this includes analysing exceptions and wastage. DMX and Symmetrix seem to have more issues than any other platform. Is this by design?
I guess I should define what I mean by exception [...]
Dave Merrill has an interesting new post on his HDS blog. He’s discussing reclamation options for recovering wastage and avoiding spending.
He divides storage up into four categories:
Old or Worthless Data Duplicate Data Usable but unallocated to hosts Allocated by unused
Fortunately for Dave, the answers to these storage wastage issues nicely [...]
We’re all aware of how solid state disks are becoming mainstream storage devices. Vendors are adding SSDs to arrays and to servers in order to increase levels of performance. I’ve been curious to understand how an SSD performs relative to traditional disk devices so I’ve purchased a typical SSD from
Chris Mellor posted a great article recently, speculating on the future of certain storage products. He hinted at a new high end array from EMC, presumably an extension to the DMX range – tentatively titled DMX-5.
We’re about due for a new hardware release. Looking back, the [...]
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