Cloud Computing: UK Power Cuts: What About Your Data Centre?
Cloud computing, Featured — February 3, 2010 at 7:45 PMA report published today by OFGEM, the UK’s energy regulator makes bleak reading for the future of electricity supply in this country. The BBC discusses it here.
The report highlights £200bn of under-investment and the risk of power cuts over the next decade. It’s a damning statement on the deregulation of the power industry but should be ringing alarm bells for anyone concerned with managing...
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This is a problem that’s been on my mind for some time; can the Drobo Dashboard see more than one device at the same...
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Cloud Computing: UK Power Cuts: What About Your Data Centre?
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They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned...
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Cloud Computing: UK Power Cuts: What About Your Data Centre?
A report published today by OFGEM, the UK’s energy regulator makes bleak reading for the future of electricity supply in this country. The BBC discusses it here.
The report highlights £200bn of under-investment and the risk of power cuts over the next decade. It’s a damning statement...
February 3rd, 2010 | Cloud computing, Featured | Read More
Enterprise Computing: Vendor Guarantees
My previous post regarding HDS and 3Par’s savings guarantees generated a few replies and rather than respond in comment, I’ve written an additional post in case I rant on too much.
First thought: vendor guarantees need to be genuine; no hiding behind obtuse configurations that help to fluff...
February 2nd, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More
Enterprise Computing: 3par and HDS – 50% Saving – Guaranteed?
In the past week, both 3Par and HDS have announced a 50% guarantee on reclaimed storage if customers move data from existing “fat” legacy arrays to 3Par storage or use HDS thin provisioning technologies. The 3Par news release is here; the Hitachi news release is here.
The 3Par guarantee...
January 29th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More
Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what...
January 20th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More
Enterprise Computing: Is 2010 The Year for iSCSI or FCoE? Place Your Bets!
It’s pretty traditional to start the year looking at what will be prevalent in the coming 12 months. In this opinion article, I will discuss whether we’ll see the prevalence of iSCSI or FCoE and what we can expect, looking back this time in 2011.
History and Background on iSCSI
iSCSI as...
January 11th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More
Virtualisation: Windows Blob Storage vs Amazon S3
This post is a guest posting from Jerry Huang from Gladinet and discusses the differences between Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure and the Amazon S3 platform.
This month, Microsoft transitioned Windows Azure Platform from public preview mode to full production mode. Azure Storage is part...
January 7th, 2010 | Cloud computing, Featured | Read More
Virtualisation: How To – Accessing DroboPro Dashboard With iSCSI
In my first review of the DroboPro, I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn’t access the ‘Pro from the Drobo Dashboard when the device is serving out iSCSI LUNs across the IP connection. This restriction is a serious flaw, as it requires taking the DroboPro down and off the network in...
January 6th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More
Personal Computing: Can Drobo Dashboard Manage Multiple Drobos?
This is a problem that’s been on my mind for some time; can the Drobo Dashboard see more than one device at the same time? Well, it turns out the answer is yes.
At first my thought was that it wasn’t possible for the Drobo Dashboard to manage more than one device. Currently I have a Drobo...
January 5th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More
Happy New Year!
Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to read my semi-focused rants over the past 12 months. I’ve been grateful for the interaction and comments, good or bad.
You’ll see the site has a new design. Over the coming 12 months I hope to blog more than ever and to cover technologies...
December 31st, 2009 | Featured | Read More
Personal Computing: The End of The Parallel Interface
This is the time of year I like to do a little early spring cleaning and one group of storage devices due a clean out are my old hard drives. After many faithful years, I’m finally saying goodbye to all of my parallel ATA devices.
One the one hand, I hate throwing things out. I like to use...
December 30th, 2009 | Featured, Personal Computing | Read More
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Cloud Computing: UK Power Cuts: What About Your Data Centre?
February 3, 2010 19:02
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Enterprise Computing: Vendor Guarantees
February 2, 2010 09:02
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Enterprise Computing: 3par and HDS – 50% Saving – Guaranteed?
January 29, 2010 20:01
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Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way
January 20, 2010 10:01
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Enterprise Computing: Is 2010 The Year for iSCSI or FCoE? Place Your Bets!
January 11, 2010 22:01
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Cloud Computing Company: This is just one benefit of cloud computing. Your data is safe in the cloud. Power loss in one place will not affect whe...
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PiroNet: What is using a lot of power in a data center? Cooling and servers! The way to go, passive cooling systems ala Google an...
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Chris Evans: Mike Thanks for the offer. I'd definitely be interested in learning more about Pillar. Just need to work out when I...
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DrDedupe: @ Mike Workman- Sorry you thought NetApp's 50% guarantee was a joke (luckily our customers didn't) Take a look at ou...
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Marc Farley (3PARFarley): Chris, You should have titled this post: "Calling all less-known Vendors". Mike, we're all glad to know that you amuse ...
- Nothing like demonstrating the size of your manhood than having a link to your acquisitions.... http://bit.ly/caSYaU
- @bwhyte - Barry, one for you. http://is.gd/7WFDZ
- @stevie_chambers Steve, disable the body scanner with your sonic screwdriver!!
- @HPStorageGuy Question - although Cisco UCS has 4x2500W PSUs, does it need/use all that power? Always a misconception about MDS....
- @mpyeager A surprise - is that related to spending time with Mrs PL???
- @storagebod 18th #storagebeers looks OK to me.
- @Kiwi_Si Now I have my consolidated VMware & Hyper-V environment, I will have to give it a try...
- @Kiwi_Si Interested in the WInImage stuff - have you tried it?
- @storagebod @daniel_eason @ianhf Not sure I'll make it. Been ill over the weekend.
