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Storage in Cloud is Not the Centre of The Universe

By On May 22, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Opinion, Storage

In a previous post, I touched on the need to have APIs for managing storage in cloud environments.  In this post, I’ll talk about how the way in which storage is deployed in cloud environments has to change.

For the last 10 years, the advent of Storage Area Networks (SANs) has created a storage-centric view [...]

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Review: Compellent Storage Center – Part I

By On September 6, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Featured, Reviews, Storage, Ulitzer

This is a series of posts reviewing the Compellent Storage Center Storage Array.

Compellent Inc, founded in 2002, produces the Storage Center product, a SAN storage array build around commodity hardware.  In addition to providing advanced features found on newer storage arrays (such as thin provisioning), the Compellent device has one unique (for now) feature [...]

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Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation

By On March 15, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Cloud, Featured

I finally managed to attend a London CloudCamp last Thursday, which conveniently co-incided with a #storagebeers evening.  For two hours of listening to the collective wisdom of the presenters and the “unpanel” we were offered free beer and food.  Now free beer is good, however I’m not sure it’s good enough to make me want [...]

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Enterprise Computing: What Next For Virtualisation?

By On September 15, 2009 · 5 Comments · In GestaltIT

Earlier this month, Texas Memory Systems announced they had acquired the intellectual assets of Incipient, a company that produced SAN virtualisation hardware and software.  With Incipient gone, EMC hardly bothering to mention Invista, what is the future of SAN LUN virtualisation? 

I talked about Incipient last [...]

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Do You Really Need a SAN – Of Course You Do!

By On December 18, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

The wacky boys at Forrester have a great new article posted relating to the requirement to have a Storage Area Network. Here’s a link to their post. Tony Asaro and Hu Yoshida have both posted on the subject already but I couldn’t resist having my [...]

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FCoE

By On April 14, 2008 · 7 Comments · In Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Using that 8Gbps

By On August 16, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized

Symantec/Veritas announced this week the release of Netbackup 6.5. It seems to me like the company has been talking about this version of the product forever and as is mentioned on other blogs, there are lots of new features to play with.

The ones I’ve been looking forward to are [...]

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Certification Nightmare

By On June 6, 2007 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

One of the things I’ve always found a real issue in heterogeneous environments is that of certification. By certification I mean confirming that an installation is vendor supported. This is no mean feat in today’s storage world. There are multiple layers – storage array, fabric, HBA, O/S, logical volume manager and multipathing software. There are [...]

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Port Oversubscription

By On May 9, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized

Following on from snig’s post, I promised a blog on FC switch oversubscription. It’s been on my list for some time and I have discussed it before, however it has also a subject I’ve discussed with clients from a financial perspective and here’s why; most people look at the cost of a fibre [...]

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Storage as a commodity

By On April 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

I just read a comment over at Zerowait regarding Netapp and proprietary hardware. It reminded me of something I was thinking about recently on the commoditisation of storage.

There’s nothing worse to my mind than a storage vendor who has no competition. Inevitably in some organisations that situation can exist when a [...]

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