Granularity: The Hidden Challenge of Storage Management
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 05. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Many storage challenges focus on the conflict between data management, which demands an ever-smaller unit of management, and storage management, which benefits most from consolidation. Developing data management capability that is both granular enough for applications and scalable enough for storage is one key to the future of storage.
Windows Server 2008 Changes Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Terabyte home on 31. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
Although it’s been available for a while now, Windows Server 2008’s storage changes aren’t widely reported. TechTarget’s Dave Raffo wrote a piece about it today, Windows Server 2008’s hidden storage features, including some quotes from me, but it’s still less than clear.
So let me sum up:
Server Message Block (SMB) 2.0 is probably the biggest news. Microsoft [...]
Storage Virtualization: What Is It Good For?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 17. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
Even though storage virtualization technologies have been on the market for 20 years or more, and numerous companies have tried to sell it as a product in its own right for at least half that long, many are still unsure of what to do with the technology. A great new piece by Dave Raffo, News [...]






