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Enterprise Computing: Run My Storage At 60%? No Way!

By On March 17, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Featured

Hu Yoshida has an interesting view on his recent post discussing storage utilisation rates.  His concluding remark suggests running at a maximum of 60% utilisation – even with Dynamic Provisioning.  Hu, you must be joking, right?

Point 1: I’ve paid for my 100% of storage and I’m going to use it.  I don’t [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Why Thin Provisioning Is Not The Holy Grail for Utilisation

By On June 4, 2009 · 23 Comments · In GestaltIT

Thin Provisioning (Dynamic Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning, or whatever you prefer to call it) is being heavily touted as a method of reducing storage costs. Whilst at the outset it seems to provide some significant storage savings, it isn’t the answer for all our storage ills.

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Enterprise Computing: HDS Switches On Virtualisation For Free

By On April 22, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Uncategorized

There’s no doubting HDS‘ Universal Volume Manager (UVM), aka external storage virtualisation is a cool product.  I’ve used it many times – it does the job.  However, the main drawback to using the product for me was always cost (I mentioned this only a few weeks ago [...]

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USP-V – bit of a let down?

By On May 15, 2007 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

It seems from the posts seen so far on the blogosphere that the USP release is causing a bit of a stir (10 points for stating the obvious I think). So, here’s my take on the announcements so far.

First of all, it’s called USP-V – presumably because of the “Massive 500-Percent Increase in Virtualized [...]

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