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Enterprise Computing: The Benefits of Wide Striping – Avoiding A Long Tail

By Chris M Evans On March 18, 2010 · 10 Comments · In Featured, GestaltIT

I took part in a podcast last night that discussed the XIV platform. One of the “key features” of XIV is the wide striping of data across all spindles. It’s a concept we’re seeing more and more in contemporary storage hardware architectures and one that’s being shoe-horned into older storage arrays too. Have you ever [...]

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

By Chris M Evans 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: The Wide Striping Debate

By Chris M Evans On July 12, 2009 · 12 Comments · In GestaltIT, Virtualisation

I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning. Here are some of the highlights:

First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether wide striping and thin provisioning should be chargeable items. I’d go a step further than Martin and suggest that thin [...]

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