It looks like the open storage management project Aperi has finally been put to rest. See this link.
Storage Resource Management is in a woeful state. SNIA with their SMI-S initiative have failed to deliver anything of value. I’ve posted multiple times Continue Reading This Post →
It seems to be all the rage to change your Twitter image to a Manga avatar or Mangatar. Well, here’s mine.
No doubt there will be plenty of people who will claim I’ve taken some artistic liberties, but I can’t answer for the lack of “features” in the software to [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Thanks to Hu Yoshida for the reference to a previous post of mine which mentioned using virtualisation (USP, SVC, take your pick) for performing data migrations. As Hu rightly points out, the USP, USP-V, NSC55 and USP-VM can all be used to virtualise other arrays [...]
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been using a product called Dropbox. This nifty little tool let’s you sync up your files from anywhere and across multiple platforms. It’s a perfect example of Cloud Storage in action. The Problem Keeping data in sync between multiple [...]
Slightly off topic and apologies for it, but I’ve been using Twitter for some time now and I normally use TweetDeck rather than the standard interface (although on the iPhone I use Tweetie).
As follower numbers have increased, I’m finding one minute updates [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve only just picked up my MacBook for the day; too much real work do to! Seriously though, my next issue is to decide how to edit my standard word and spreadsheet documents. I’ve installed the latest version of OpenOffice and it works fine. At least, it appears to work fine on simple documents. Who [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Background The physical capacity of storage arrays continues to grow at an enormous rate, year on year. Using EMC as a benchmark, we can see that a single array has grown over the years; Symmetrix 3430 – 96 drives, 0.84TB Symmetrix 5500 – 128 drives, 1.1TB Symmetrix 8830 – 384 drives, 69.5TB DMX3000 – 576 [...]
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