A random comment made on twitter a few days ago has been stuck in my mind and been going around and around. It’s finally emerged. Even as we start into 2011 we don’t really have scalable Storage Resource Management products for the Enterprise.
Sure, we have point products that can managed small numbers of arrays. [...]
Thanks to Glasshouse_Tech on Twitter for referencing this article. Should we be surprised that 15% of respondents had no idea what their storage utilisation was? Not really.
Firstly there’s the general wastage issue – discussed here.
Then there’s the issue with SRM tools - The SRM Conundrum.
Then there’s [...]
I tried a bit of nostalgia the other day. From a “freebie” CD-ROM I installed a games emulator for the ZX Spectrum, a personal computer that was hugely popular in the ’80s. The game I installed was called Manic Miner, one of the original platform games. At the time [...]
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