Over the last few weeks I’ve been using Zumodrive, another cloud storage offering. This week Zumodrive released their iPhone client, which enables storage to be synchronised to an iPhone or iPod Touch device.
Continue Reading This Post →There was an interesting question posed this afternoon by Ditchboy on ITToolbox. The gist of the question was why Enterprise storage is so expensive, when 1TB drives are less than £100 a piece. It’s a good question and something I’m asked quite often.
To us [...]
Continue Reading This Post →It may be hard to believe, but many organisations can’t identify all of their storage users. Developing a migration strategy requires knowing all of your customers and building your relationship with them.
Continue Reading This Post →I recently posted on the issue of migrating data from large Enterprise storage arrays. The post covered a summary of the migration steps, with some brief discussion on calculating costs. In this series of posts, I will discuss migration strategies in more detail, covering the major steps in developing and implementing an ongoing Enterprise Data Migration Strategy.
Continue Reading This Post →Beth Pariseau had an interesting comment today regarding the use of Cloud Storage API standards, following on from a SNIA summit on the subject.
As usual, SNIA have got a hold of the wrong end of the stick. Standardizing on Amazon’s API is just crazy. In fact, at this stage, [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Storagebod had a great comment on the use of Flash Drives in Enterprise arrays. I’d agree entirely that the vendors have bolted them into existing hardware and as a consequence they’re not working to their most efficient.
Here’s a prediction – an array which works on fixed “memory”pages that [...]
Continue Reading This Post →As part of my work with Storage Fusion, I’m reporting on capacity and utilisation figures for different array vendors. Part of this includes analysing exceptions and wastage. DMX and Symmetrix seem to have more issues than any other platform. Is this by design?
I guess I should define what I [...]
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