Posts Tagged ‘storage’

Lehman Brothers hits the rocks

The latest casualty of the credit crunch is Lehman Brothers who have filed for Chapter 11 Bankrupcy protection. See the report here from the BBC. I worked for Lehman in the UK for a short period about 4 years ago. If their banking operations was run anything like IT, then there’s no surprise...
September 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Large Hadron Collider, Data, Sweden and Nuclear Rockets

The testing of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has been widely reported over the last few days and weeks in the media. You can find more details here. In simplistic terms, the project is looking to re-create the conditions experienced in the Big Bang at the start of the universe in an attempt...
September 10th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

FC Enhancements

A comment posted to my previous blog entry reminds me of a requirement I’ve had for some time from Fibre Channel. In the “Good Old Days” in my first working life as a mainframe systems programmer, I could very easily see a breakdown of response time against each storage device on...
June 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Drobo Update

I’ve had my Drobo for a few months now. For those of you not familiar with the technology, the Drobo is a storage device from a company called Data Robotics. Follow the link above to their website for full details. I’d been looking for a decent home/home office storage device for some time. RAID...
April 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Problems Problems

This week I’ve been working on two interesting (ish) problems. Well, one more interesting than the other, one a case of the vendor needing to think about requirements more. Firstly, Tuning Manager (my old software nemesis) strikes again. Within Tuning Manager it is possible to track performance...
September 21st, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Long term data retention

I spent some time earlier this week talking to COPAN. They produce high density storage systems, but not the sort of arrays you’d use for traditional data storage. Their product is pitched at the long term persistent storage market. I’m sure you can read the website if you’re interested...
February 13th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

#4 – 3Par

3Par, a storage array vendor is promising to purchase carbon emission offset credits for every TB of thin provisioning storage customers purchase in 2007. Their estimate, based on the 4PB of storage they expect to sell is that the equivalent of 700 cars or 8 million lbs (that’s about 3600 tonnes...
February 1st, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

#3 – The Solution

There are some very obvious things that can be done to reduce my emissions. Here are a few I think may work: Working from home Use public transport rather than drive Use a laptop rather than a PC Virtualise all my “testing” servers to a single unit It’s a fairly weak list. I suppose...
January 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Storage protocols for VMware

I’ve been doing more VMware work recently. The deployment I’m working on is using SAN presented disk. The storage started as 50GB LUNs, quickly grew to 100GB and now we’re deploying on 200GB LUNs, using VMFS and placing multiple VM guests on each meta volume. Now, this presents a number...
January 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Buy Buy Buy

More acquisition news; Brocade and McDATA are finally just Brocade after the purchase completes. There’s a snazzy new logo which I can’t decide is like a pair of red angel wings, or some convoluted join of the M and B from the two companies. Personally, I preferred the old logo depicting...
January 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More
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