Where Will Virtualization of Data Center Infrastructure Take Us?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 14. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I am posting on Sundays.
Virtualization of IT systems decouples physical infrastructure from logical resources, hiding complexity and enabling new capabilities. However, not all potential benefits of virtualization have meaningful value outside IT circles: Too many of our discussions revolve around the very complexity that virtualization [...]
Storage Folks Are Talking 10-Gig and FCoE
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 21. Nov, 2008 | View Comments
I continue to be amazed by the level of interest I’m seeing in Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and 10 Gb Converged Ethernet among storage people. As I noted after my Charlotte virtualization seminar, end users at the largest enterprises seem to think that FCoE is their future, not just one of several options.
But when [...]
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 [...]
A Consultant’s View Of The Enterprise Storage Market
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 21. Sep, 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.
I am not the typical enterprise storage user. In fact, I am not an enterprise storage user at all – I am a consultant focused for over a decade on [...]
Reacting to TechTarget’s Storage Products of the Year
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 11. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
TechTarget’s Storage magazine today announced the winners of their annual Products of the Year awards, and it’s an impressive array of technologies. Although I did not contribute to the voting this year, I heartily endorse the outcomes!
Overall, I was impressed with many of these products this last year, but certainly CommVault, HDS, ProStor, Xsigo, [...]
