Posts Tagged ‘data storage’

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt II

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 which determines how cloud...
December 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt I

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. The original...
December 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Home Storage Management – Week 1

So after discussions on home storage, I’m going to do a weekly cleanup/report on what I’ve achieved. Here’s the baseline; Main Server; 927GB of usable storage (via Drobo) – 768GB in use. (82.84%). In fact I’ve consolidated a pair of mirrored 400GB drives onto the Drobo...
November 26th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

SMI-S Is Dead

Take it from me, SMI-S is a thing of the past. If there’s one thing the last few months have taught me it’s how different each vendor’s products really are. I’ve been working on a tool called SRA (see the link here) which will report on storage in a consistent manner. Let...
October 30th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Fast Food Storage Provisioning

Yesterday I discussed beating the credit crunch by getting your house in order. This was picked up my Marc Farley over at StorageRap and he posted accordingly. Marc, thanks for the additional comments, I will be reviewing the diagram accordingly based on your thoughts. Moving on, think to yourself...
October 1st, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Incipient Revisited

You will remember that I recently posted a comment about migration costs, specifically with relation to Incipient. My view was (and still is) that the majority of migration costs come from preparatory and remedial work rather than execution of the migration. Well, Incipient asked for the right of...
June 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Simple is Good

I’ve been doing a lot of travelling recently (rather a lot in fact), mostly in Europe, with a little in the UK between airports. European trains are much better than their UK counterparts – they are reliable, clean, comfortable (note I didn’t claim they were fast) and their cost structure...
June 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

When Storage Planning Goes Bad

I was chatting to colleagues today and we were reflecting on an installation which had just completed and needed another additional storage tranche installed. Ironically, the initial disk installation on the new array hadn’t been fully implemented because the vendor “forgot” to install...
April 10th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Multi-vendor Storage

Reading Chuck’s blog during my vacation, I stopped on his comment that multi-vendor environments are on the decline due to their complexity and the hassle of dealing with multiple vendors. I have to say that firstly, I don’t believe this and secondly and companies with large storage environments...
April 1st, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Controls in Place

I work with many companies in which the storage and server/platform teams have to sign in blood in order to receive suitable access to perform their day to day work. In fact, for some organisations, it can equate to 50% or more of their time. I’ve been there and I understand and have experienced...
January 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More
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