Posts Tagged ‘storagebod’

Enterprise Computing: The Wide Striping Debate

Enterprise Computing: The Wide Striping Debate
I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning.  Here are some of the highlights: First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether wide striping and thin provisioning should be chargeable items.  I’d...
July 12th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More

Enterprise Computing: New HDS AMS – Do We Need Enterprise Storage?

I’ve just been reading through the press release from HDS on their new AMS enhancements.  Hu Yoshida has blogged about the new features too (it makes a change to hear something different than another discussion on UVM).  There’s now HDP support as well as dense storage trays capable of...
June 30th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

2 Days, 2 Bod Posts

For the second time in two days I find myself drawn to comment on a Storagebod related post. The subject today is Tony Asaro’s rant on one of StorageBod’s recent posts denegrating virtualisation. Now let’s get things clear – I like HDS’s implementation of virtualisation....
December 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

The SRM Conundrum

Martin (Storagebod) has an interesting post today. Rather than post a long reply, I’ve chosen to steal his thunder and post specifically on the subject – of SRM tools. Apart from when I worked in the mainframe storage arena, I’ve always struggled with SRM tools. Just for reference,...
December 2nd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More