ZFS: Super File System!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 27. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
ZFS really piques my interest, so I just had to include it in my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar series.
Here’s a quick primer for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, and thus are wondering why anyone would get stoked over a filesystem!
ZFS (originally “zettabyte file system” but now just ZFS) takes the essential technolgy [...]
VMware Storage Tidbits
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 22. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
When researching the interaction of storage and VMware for my upcoming TechTarget seminar series on storage virtualization, I picked up a few little tidbits of information that I wanted to share…
Beware of block sizes greater than 256 KB when using certain Fibre Channel arrays! VMware’s performance research shows that throughput drops on some FC arrays, [...]
Volume Management: Virtualizing Host Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 21. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve been feverishly preparing for my upcoming TechTarget seminar series focused on storage virtualization, so I thought it might be interesting to post a few topics from the talk here on the blog. If you’ll be in Washington DC on March 4, or Durham NC on March 6 and are interested in the world of [...]
Go Outside NOW! Look Up! It’s a Total Lunar Eclipse!
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 20. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
There is a total lunar eclipse beginning right now, viewable across the United States and Europe! The moon will be fully eclipsed an hour and 15 minutes from now, midnight my time. So go outside and look up!
Apple Customers Vent Over Ex-Xserve RAID
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 20. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
Apple’s business customers do not appear amused at the company’s exit from the enterprise storage space, but it was the quiet way that the company dumped the Xserve RAID product from their lineup that really irked. “XRAID” customers were left wondering whether they made the right choice, and if the company’s support for the [...]
I Want a Real Blog Aggregator
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 19. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
I love Google Reader. I love Friendfeed. I even like Plaxo Pulse. But here’s what I want: A one-stop blog aggregator that lets me do everything for everywhere in one place. I want integrated socialization, and especially threading and integrated commenting. And I think we can do it! [...]
Apple Revs Xsan and Kills Xserve RAID?
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage on 19. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
Apple has an odd relationship with enterprise computing. Their Xserve server products are strong, as is Leopard Server, and they have an excellent SAN file system, Xsan, that they just updated. Yet, Mac OS X is the last major operating system with no volume manager (thanks to the antiquated HFS+), and it looks [...]
Come See My Storage Virtualization Seminar!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 17. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
TechTarget recently announced a new Storage Decisions Seminar series focused on Storage Virtualization, with yours truly as the speaker!
Although the content is still being formalized, the first sessions are right around the corner on March 4 (in Wachington, DC), and March 6 (in Durham, NC). If you’re near either of these cities, I [...]
Is There An iPhone 1.1.3 Storage Gremlin?
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 13. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
Ever since I upped my iPhone to version 1.1.3, I’ve been puzzled by the allocation of a couple hundred megabytes of capacity to “Other”. Look at the picture here – notice that it has 243.9 MB of “Other”? Some of that is my custom ringtones (self-created thanks to AtomicParsley!), but not much. The rest magically [...]
Storage Decisions 2008 Dates Are Announced!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 12. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
TechTarget’s Storage Decisions shows have long been a highlight of the data storage industry calendar, and the company recently announced the dates for 2008. I’m pleased to announce that I will again be presenting at these shows, and will post more details on my topics as they become available.
Storage Decisions 2008 dates and locations:
Chicago, [...]
