Archive for July, 2009

Enterprise Computing: It's All About The Process!

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 –...
July 27th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part V

This is the final post in a 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 Enterprise Computing: Data Migration...
July 22nd, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Space Travel and Computing

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...
July 20th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: A Myopic View of Unified Storage

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...
July 15th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: When Latency Doesn't Count

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...
July 14th, 2009 | Cloud computing, Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part IV

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...
July 14th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: The Wide Striping Debate

Enterprise Computing: The Wide Striping Debate
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...
July 12th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More

Enterprise Computing: EMC Beat Netapp To Data Domain & Ionix

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...
July 9th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Poll Result – EMC Writes Best Software!

I’ve closed the poll on Who Is Best in SRM Software. The results are posted on the right (I can’t seem to integrate into this post) or you can follow this link. I’m not going to make any further comment – I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
July 3rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More