Today Data Robotics (Drobo) are announcing a new range of storage devices specifically targeted at business customers. However this is a market that already has many players; what are they offering and how will they fare in this already competitive market?
New Devices
First of all, let’s take a look at [...]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about automated storage tiering (not least from myself) and there’s one piece of the puzzle I’m not completely sure has been explored in depth. Many of the posts refer to physically moving data between tiers of internal (or external) storage. In legacy environments where LUNs are comprised of [...]
Comments on my last post reminded me of a conversation I had recently regarding the setting of specific performance criteria for storage tiers. Some companies attempt to set specific performance guarantees; for example setting tier 1 storage to a response time of 10ms or less, tier 2 to 20ms or less.
I [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of travelling recently (rather a lot in fact), mostly in Europe, with a little in the UK between airports. European trains are much better than their UK counterparts – they are reliable, clean, comfortable (note I didn’t claim they were fast) and their cost structure is simple to understand. No [...]
In a recent post, Hu Yoshida refrences an IDC presentation discussing the rate of growth of structured versus unstructured data. It seems that we can expect unstructured data to grow at a rate of some 63.7% annually. I wonder what actual percentage of this data represents useful information?
Personally I know I’m guilty [...]
I’ve just read a couple of Gary O’s postings over at Thoughtput, the blog from Gear6.
In his article “Feeding the Virtual Machines”, he discussed NAS and SAN deployment for a virtual environment and makes the bold claim:
“Most people tend to agree that NAS is easier [...]
Implementing a storage tiering strategy is a big thing these days. Everyone should do it. If you don’t then you’re not a “proper” storage administrator. Being serious and moving away from the hype for a second, there is a lot of sense in implementing tiering. It comes down to 1 thing – cost. If disk [...]
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