Archive for December, 2009

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to read my semi-focused rants over the past 12 months.  I’ve been grateful for the interaction and comments, good or bad. You’ll see the site has a new design.  Over the coming 12 months I hope to blog more than ever and to cover technologies...
December 31st, 2009 | Featured | Read More

Personal Computing: The End of The Parallel Interface

Personal Computing: The End of The Parallel Interface
This is the time of year I like to do a little early spring cleaning and one group of storage devices due a clean out are my old hard drives.  After many faithful years, I’m finally saying goodbye to all of my parallel ATA devices.  One the one hand, I hate throwing things out.  I like to use...
December 30th, 2009 | Featured, Personal Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: CLARiiON; Your Mileage May Vary

Enterprise Computing: CLARiiON; Your Mileage May Vary
As part of my work at Storage Fusion, I get to dig into the inner workings of storage arrays in a way most people don’t (either through inclination or time).  One interesting anomaly we discovered this week was the variability in capacities of CLARiiON disks.  What results from this is that...
December 15th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Has EMC Slipped Zero Block Reclaim Into V-Max?

I spent some time today looking at the release notes for Enginuity code 5874.207.166, which presumably is the one that brings the much lauded Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) into general release on V-Max.  Just above the FAST paragraph I found the following: Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning Space...
December 11th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part IV

This is the last in a four-part series of posts on the Sun Storage 7000 USS storage arrays.  Previous posts in this series can be found here: Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part II Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage...
December 10th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is There Any Point Buying From EMC?

Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis.  However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for legacy...
December 9th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Review: DroboPro – Part II

Review: DroboPro – Part II
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the DroboPro from Data Robotics Inc.  Previous post(s): Review: DroboPro – Part I Previously I discussed a few frustrations with connecting my new DroboPro to ESXi, the target environment for my new device.  I’ve now managed to get the...
December 7th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Virtualisation: Virtualising MY SOHO Infrastructure

I’m in the process of migrating my existing physical infrastructure into a virtual environment. There’s nothing like “eating your own dog food” (there’s got to be a better expression than that) for testing out your beliefs on how technology should be implemented, so it’s...
December 2nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Review: DroboPro – Part I

My new DroboPro arrived this week and so far I’m less than impressed.  As you know, I already have had a generation 1 Drobo for some time.  It has been a great device, doing exactly what I wanted.  After winning a second standard Drobo at Tech Field Day, I paid for the upgrade to the DroboPro...
December 1st, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More