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 [...]
New Mac Mini Is A Diamond In The Rough
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Everything, Terabyte home on 10. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
After a very, very long wait, Apple has finally updated their entry-level “bridge” Mac, the Mac Mini. It’s amazing that, after 19 months without an update, Apple’s new Mini looks exactly the same as the old Mini. But what’s under the hood matters, and Apple delivered a mixed bag there. The new Mini is an excellent home server, which is how mine will be used, but some poor choices limit its abilities out of the box.
Essential Reading for VMware ESX iSCSI Users!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 26. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
Update: Check out the latest multi-vendor iSCSI post!
I usually don’t write about other peoples’ articles on this blog, preferring to stick to my own independent work. But this time I’m making an exception.
If you use or are interested in VMware ESX 3.x and iSCSI, you simply must go read Chad Sakac’s post on the topic. Co-written [...]
Who Will Capture the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Crown?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 19. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
Today, Brocade announced that it has completed its acquisition of Foundry Networks. This is just the latest move in the strategic game to control the next generation of Ethernet, and possibly all local connectivity, including storage. Although 1 Gb Ethernet, 4 and 8 Gb Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand are all still going strong, the attention of the industry, [...]
Reality Check: The FCoE Forecast
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 19. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content.
There has been a lot of discussion in the storage industry about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), making it the toast of Storage Networking World, but this technology remains relatively unknown to [...]
Is the FCoE Starting Pistol Aimed at iSCSI?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 16. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
To hear this week’s storage industry news reports, one might think that Wagner’s fat lady came to Storage Networking World (SNW), singing her song as the iSCSI world collapses. Storagebod wonders what iSCSI’s death will look like. Chris Mellor at The Register says “Game Over” as NetApp, QLogic, Emulex and VMware join EMC and Cisco in singing the [...]
Will FCoE Rule the Future?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 22. Apr, 2008 | View Comments
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has been a hot topic of discussion in the enterprise storage world lately, but many end users are just now hearing about it. Although some folks seem to think it’s here with a vengance, others doubt that it will ever make the splash it promises, with 8 Gb FC, iSCSI, [...]
Larry Boucher: The Future Is Mine! (in 2009…)
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage on 23. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Beth Pariseau over at SearchStorage.com has another great interview, this time with “Mr. SCSI”, Larry Boucher of Alacritech. Despite being early to market with TCP offload engine (TOE) Ethernet NICs, and iSCSI HBAs in particular, the company has been less successful than many would have expected. This is probably because most folks just [...]
Thoughts on Mark Lewis’ Future Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 08. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
EMC’s Mark Lewis posted another thoughtful “blog episode”, outlining five predictions he has for the next few years. I don’t really agree with him much more than I did the last time, but it’s an interesting read nonetheless!
Is Storage Really That Different?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 25. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
Cisco’s new product announcements this week got me thinking about our little storage pond. Sure, VFrame isn’t breaking any new ground compared to Scalent, HP’s Opsware, and BladeLogic, but it’ll be a revelation to Cisco’s customers. Remember, all the iPod had going for it was Apple’s brand name, customer base, and flawless execution!
The point is, [...]
