Archive for March, 2009

Enterprise Computing: The Inevitable FCoE

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 Network Interface Card...
March 31st, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Cloud Computing: Misunderstanding Data Availability

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 safe...
March 28th, 2009 | Cloud computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: The Long Term Future of Tape

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...
March 24th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Cloud Computing: Trawling the Toxic Wastedump

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 all creating too much...
March 20th, 2009 | Cloud computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Cisco, IBM, Sun & EMC – A Busy Week

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...
March 19th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Why Buy EMC?

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...
March 13th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part III

This is a continuing series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies.  Previous Posts:  Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part I Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part II   Previous posts have discussed reasons for migration and the need to identify all...
March 13th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Netapp and Efficiency – Managing Perception

A quick discussion last night on Twitter got me thinking about the way technology is perceived in the industry at large.  In particular, the discussion related to Netapp and in my usual facetious way I said I wouldn’t quote Netapp and Efficiency in the same sentence (whoa, I just did!).   I...
March 11th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Personal Computing: 2GB Is Enough For Anyone

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 2GB of online storage, so naturally, I’ve...
March 5th, 2009 | Personal Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Storage Wastage – A Reclaim Challenge

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...
March 2nd, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More