The world of Twitter has been debating the merits of Fibre Channel over Ethernet again. It seems that I’m one of only a few that sees little point in moving to FCoE. The only positive I see mooted for FCoE is the ability to put traffic over a single Host Bus Adaptor or [...]
As is widely reported (here by TechCrunch), Carbonite, an online backup service, have lost customer data. Another one of a long line-up of data losses, (whether partial or complete – which has taken some companies down) this demonstrates that relying on someone else to keep your data [...]
It’s funny how a small comment made in a blog post strikes a note with people in different ways. In this post on the potential Sun acquisition by IBM, I made the comment “tape doesn’t have a long-term strategic future in anyone’s business”. D_Ced picked up on this and questioned me about it [...]
A quick Tweet with Chris Mellor just reminded me of something I touched on a few months ago but always meant to write about in more detail. It’s a semi-serious analogy (it is Friday after all) but there’s a hint of the possible about it, so here goes.
We’re [...]
It’s certainly been a busy week in the world of enterprise computing.
First, Cisco announced their Unified Computing System – blade servers to you and me. UCS integrates blade servers with management functionality and the Unified Fabric. What’s interesting is that Fibre Channel gets pushed out at this point [...]
Here’s an interesting article on Barrons.com which talks about EMC’s future market share and the risk of share being lost from the increasing acceptance of customers to consider technology from “lower cost” competitors.
Enterprise arrays have been successful because they offer high reliability and availability. This was achieved through monolithic designs of [...]
Previous posts have discussed reasons for migration and the need to identify all of the servers accessing your storage resources. In this post, I will cover the need to perform a full inventory of connected hosts and the gap analysis work to be performed before migrations can start.
Within the Storage Industry there are perceptions on the efficiency of storage hardware from the major vendors. But is that perception justified or is it the customer who is to blame?
OK, so the title of this post is a backhanded complement to Mr Gates and his often mis-quoted reference to the amount of memory needed on PCs. In my instance I’m referring to the amount of storage I use on DropBox.
Dropbox free accounts provide up to [...]
My previous post on DMX wastage generated a lot of discussion, some of which has diverted into other product lines such as SVC. Over the last week at Storage Fusion we’ve been working to integrate login history information for DMX, which has shown further reclaim opportunities.
So, I’m going to set [...]
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