From the monthly archives: May 2010

This is a series of posts covering the subject of Storage Management.  Previous posts:

The Four Pillars of Storage Management Four Pillars: Service Four Pillars: The Service Catalogue

In any system, resources are finite.  There is always a limitation to [...]

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This is part of a series of posts with video recorded at the HP Blades Day in Houston, February 2010.  Previous posts:

HP Blades Day – Lab Session: Clip 1 HP Blades Day – Lab Session: Clip 2

This is another post for the hardware [...]

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I love the late evening banter on Twitter, where a conversation between a number of individuals turns into a personal rant from yours truly.  Tonight’s subject – performance management of Microsoft Exchange and overconfiguration of storage for email.

Some 4 years ago, I was working for a large investment bank (which may now be defunct) [...]

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I’m not a fan of making press releases on behalf of other companies however once in a while, a news item catches my interest.  So it is with the announcement of the Violin Memory Inc. 3200 series of all-memory storage arrays.  Why are these interesting?  Because I think they are [...]

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This is a series of posts covering the subject of Storage Management.  Previous posts:

http://www.thestoragearchitect.com/2010/05/04/enterprise-computing-the-four-pillars-of-storage-management/ http://www.thestoragearchitect.com/2010/05/14/enterprise-computing-4-pillars-service/

As discussed previously, the Service Catalogue is a key component of delivering storage as a service.  In this post, I’ll explore some thoughts on developing a Service Catalogue and [...]

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This post is the second of a series of video posts from the HP Blades Day in February 2010.  Previous posts:

HP Blades Day – Lab Session – Part I

In this video, James Singer talks about power supplies.  This may not seem like the most interesting subject in the [...]

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In homage to Calvin’s post of today, extolling the virtues of tape, I couldn’t help but create my own tongue-in-cheek version of his post.  So here are my reasons tape still exists in the enterprise.

Because we just spent $5million on huge automated tape libraries (that mount each tape on [...]

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