I’ve been doing some work at a large financial organisation over the last couple of weeks. As always, the result of my analysis is that the technology isn’t the main problem.
Let’s face it, most enterprise storage technology is pretty similar; arrays all have similar features – RAID, Fibre Channel support, massive scalability and so [...]
This is the final post in a series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies. Previous posts:
Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part I
As everyone will know, today is the anniversary of the first manned space flight landing, and subsequently walking on the moon. What an amazing achievement it was, made even more incredible by the sheer manual nature of space flying as exemplified by the failed Apollo 13 mission. I thought it would be interesting to look [...]
I’ve only just stumbled on Kostadis’ video on Unified Storage. In case you’re not familiar with the concept, here’s his definition:
A piece of hardware that has CPU, Memory and disk That supports FC, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS That has a common management console for all storage functions that are not protocol specific [...]
A quick exchange tonight on Twitter with Steve Duplessie (@stevedupe) regarding latency and datacentre location got me thinking again about the whole datacentre location issue which I’d mused over some time ago.
It goes like this; given no latency restrictions, where in the world would you place your datacentres?
Clearly the choice would [...]
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
Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies Part III
So far in this series of posts I’ve discussed the pre-work required in order to get [...]
I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning. Here are some of the highlights:
First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether wide striping and thin provisioning should be chargeable items. I’d go a step further than Martin and suggest that thin [...]
As expected, Netapp have chosen not to continue in the bidding war for Data Domain and have bowed out after EMC’s increased bid of $33.50 a share.
In some respects we shouldn’t be surprised, as it always looked like EMC were in the game purely to beat Netapp. What’s interesting [...]
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