It annoys me when vendors release new products and don’t update their global website correctly.
Like this link for HDS; http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/adaptable-modular-storage-2000-family/index.html?WT.ac=prodssams2000
Which should follow through to a page (link at the bottom) to AMS2000 Specifications. Except it doesn’t – it only displays the older models. Doesn’t a product release of the level [...]
There’s no doubting that storage virtualisation will prove to be a key component of IT architecture in the future. The overall benefit is to abstract the physical storage layer from servers either in the fabric, or through the use of a dedicated appliance or even in the array itself.
Over time, storage resources can be [...]
There’s been a lot of blogosphere talk recently about the Wikibon “Conserve_IT” initiative and how California’s Pacific Gas and Electric Company are taking the initiative and offering organisations rebates for demonstrable IT efficiencies. You can find comments here, here and here.
Unfortunately as with [...]
I’ve been on holiday for the last week (sunning myself and the family in Cyprus). I had no Internet access – not even TV! Although I had no laptop (or Blackberry this time) I did take my iPod Touch, now configured with the mobile version of NewsGator. As I’ve mentioned previously, I have [...]
Fibre Channel over Ethernet has been back on my radar recently, especially as it was touted again at Storage Networking World in Orlando last week. Unfortunately I wasn’t there and didn’t see for myself, although I was in Orlando the week before on vacation. I can imagine if I’d extended [...]
Reading Chuck’s blog during my vacation, I stopped on his comment that multi-vendor environments are on the decline due to their complexity and the hassle of dealing with multiple vendors.
I have to say that firstly, I don’t believe this and secondly and companies with large storage environments would be mad not [...]
I’m away on holiday at the moment (which is a blessed relief, looking at the Easter weather in the UK, no pun intended) however catching up with some emails I noticed the supposed post on Storagezilla’s site that IBM are to purchase Diligent.
I nearly worked for the UK arm of Diligent [...]
We all know that disk drive manufacturers have been conning us for years with their definition of what constitutes a gigabyte. There are two schools of thought; the binary GB, which is 1024x1024x1024 or 1,073,741,824 bytes and the decimal GB which is quoted as 1000x1000x1000 or 1 billion bytes. The difference is significant (7.4%) and [...]
Does anyone use CU Free? Here’s the reason for my question.
I’ve just implemented a migration from a pair of 9980V and 9970Vs to a single USP in one site and a 9970V and 9980V remaining in the other site. All of the MCU->RCU relationships (4 of them) are being used between the USP and [...]
Storage Standards – Arrays
After a recent posting by Stephen I thought it would be good to discuss standards and the sort of standards I’d look to implement when designing an infrastructure from scratch. Obviously it isn’t always possible to start from a clean slate and consequently many sites have what I describe as “partial [...]
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