It’s the end of another year and of course time to the obligatory posts on predictions in the industry for the next 12 months. True to form, I’ve spent some time thinking and here are my top 5 ruminations for the coming year.
EMC join SPC. EMC will finally have the epiphany we’ve all been [...]
Continue Reading This Post →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 [...]
Continue Reading This Post →In my previous post I started the discussion on how cloud storage could actually be useful to organisations and not be simply for consumer use.
Standards
One of the big issues that will arise is the subject of standards. To my knowledge, there is no standard so far [...]
Continue Reading This Post →So HDS have announced solid state disks. Here’s the post. They’re only 11 months behind EMC and once they’ve actually become available it will be nearly a full 12 months “late”.
It’s interesting to [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Storagezilla was quick to turn a Twitter conversation into a PR opportunity for EMC this week. Have a read. As one of the originators of this conversation, I’d intended to blog on it but was slightly beaten to print. Never mind, I’ve got more content to add to the discussion.
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Continue Reading This Post →Over on ITToolbox the age old subject of dual versus single vendor strategy has raised its head again.
This time, the consensus, apart from yours truly, was that a single vendor strategy was best – mostly because it is easier to implement.
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Continue Reading This Post →A while back I presented a diagram showing how storage is lost throughout the provisioning process.
I’ve added a few more items onto the diagram and heres version 2. The additions show reasons why storage is lost at various points in the cycle, [...]
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