Posts Tagged ‘HDS’

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

It's the little things that annoy

It annoys me when vendors release new products and don’t update their global website correctly. Like this link for HDS; http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/adaptable-modular-storage-2000-family/index.html?WT.ac=prodssams2000 Which should follow through to a page (link at the bottom) to...
October 20th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Replacing the Virtualisation Component

There’s no doubting that storage virtualisation will prove to be a key component of IT architecture in the future. The overall benefit is to abstract the physical storage layer from servers either in the fabric, or through the use of a dedicated appliance or even in the array itself. Over time,...
October 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

The Conserve IT Con

There’s been a lot of blogosphere talk recently about the Wikibon “Conserve_IT” initiative and how California’s Pacific Gas and Electric Company are taking the initiative and offering organisations rebates for demonstrable IT efficiencies. You can find comments here, here and...
August 25th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Off The Grid

I’ve been on holiday for the last week (sunning myself and the family in Cyprus). I had no Internet access – not even TV! Although I had no laptop (or Blackberry this time) I did take my iPod Touch, now configured with the mobile version of NewsGator. As I’ve mentioned previously,...
August 19th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

FCoE

Fibre Channel over Ethernet has been back on my radar recently, especially as it was touted again at Storage Networking World in Orlando last week. Unfortunately I wasn’t there and didn’t see for myself, although I was in Orlando the week before on vacation. I can imagine if I’d extended or...
April 14th, 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

HDS and Hardware

I’m away on holiday at the moment (which is a blessed relief, looking at the Easter weather in the UK, no pun intended) however catching up with some emails I noticed the supposed post on Storagezilla’s site that IBM are to purchase Diligent. I nearly worked for the UK arm of Diligent many years...
March 26th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

The Case of Decimal v. Binary

We all know that disk drive manufacturers have been conning us for years with their definition of what constitutes a gigabyte. There are two schools of thought; the binary GB, which is 1024×1024x1024 or 1,073,741,824 bytes and the decimal GB which is quoted as 1000×1000x1000 or 1 billion...
November 5th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

CU Free

Does anyone use CU Free? Here’s the reason for my question. I’ve just implemented a migration from a pair of 9980V and 9970Vs to a single USP in one site and a 9970V and 9980V remaining in the other site. All of the MCU->RCU relationships (4 of them) are being used between the USP and...
October 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More
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