Each month the most popular posts will be shared on email with additional content. Newsletter #1 offers a year-end summary. Here’s the basis of the content, for this edition only. Subscribe for future releases.
Once again 2012 was a busy year for technology. Here are some of the highlights.
Software Defined Everything. There were two acquisitions [...]
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Each quarter, Gartner produces a report listing their estimates on figures for sales of external storage arrays, otherwise known as “external controller-based” disk (ECB). The figures for 3Q12 are just out and make interesting reading. IBM, HP, Dell and Oracle are all down on their position 12 months ago, whilst [...]
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It’s probably fair to say that data migration is one of the most tedious tasks in storage management. Moving data from one array to another, simply to decommission a piece of hardware or for load and capacity balancing, doesn’t ever inspire me. But it’s a necessary evil and one I’ve done many times. Unless the [...]
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I had a tweet this morning from Leo Tudisca following on from the latest Infosmack Deep Dive podcast discussing storage and virtualisation. Leo’s question was regarding sub-LUN virtual machine replication and how it can be achieved. This requirement is something I’ve been mulling over for [...]
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I recently wrote an article covering storage for virtualisation and was surprised to find out that Microsoft does not support the use of NFS shares with Hyper-V. At first I thought perhaps I was doing something wrong and that my configuration was in error. But after a [...]
Continue Reading This Post →In a double whammy, we have two potential storage beers events happening this week.
Tonight (sorry for the late notice), there will be a meetup at the Royal Oak in Windsor from 7pm (Tuesday 22nd), prior to the HDS Bloggers Day taking place Wednesday and Thursday. The pub’s location can be found here:
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I’ve picked out a selection of storage related white papers for this month. Remember they’re free, you just need to register.
Transforming your Information Infrastructure with IBM’s Storage Cloud Solution Storage Source Magazine Improving Storage Efficiencies with Data Deduplication and [...]
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