Back From The Pile: May 30, 2009
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 01. Jun, 2009 | View Comments
It was a week of HAM in the enterprise storage industry and angry arguments in the CloudCamp camp. But things looked up at the end with a productive discussion about backups. Google sent us a wave, but nobody was happy when GM threatened to collapse.
Enterprise Storage
HDS’ HAM-Fisted Announcement did not impress, with many wondering (So Long [...]
Back From the Pile: Interesting Content From the Week of May 2, 2009
Posted by Stephen in Everything on 04. May, 2009 | View Comments
There were some interesting events and blog posts last week. This new weekly feature highlights those!
Enterprise IT
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Reliance On Backup Tapes – What’s wrong with backup tapes? They’re inaccessible, making them unsuitable for most applications. My latest post for my Enterprise Storage Strategies blog.
Is Licensing Turning vSphere Into Vista? – A [...]
Tracking EMC’s Symmetrix V-Max Launch
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 14. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
EMC completely took over April 14 to launch their next-generation Symmetrix enterprise storage system. Sporting their new V-Max architecture, the Symmetrix (let’s just call it DMX-5, ok?) is a scale-out system based on standard components wrapped together into a multiprocessing powerhouse.
This news is so fresh you would leave footprints if you step in it, but [...]
Introducing Gestalt IT, a New Web Magazine For Enterprise IT Infrastructure Commentary
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Virtual Storage on 25. Feb, 2009 | View Comments
Times are changing in the tech media world, so a core group of independent enterprise IT bloggers have come together to combine our writing into a mega blog or web magazine focused on enterprise IT infrastructure topics like virtualization, networking, and storage: Gestalt IT. The idea is that the best content from the best enterprise IT folks is brought together in one place.
