Network Appliance is no more. The company that made the second enterprise storage device I ever used, added the terms “filer” and “appliance” to the enterprise IT lexicon, and long suffered from a confusing array of names, is now officially called NetApp. This is probably a good idea. A company needs a single name, and [...]
Which Storage Protocol For VMware?
March 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
One of the hits from my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar this week was a discussion of the relative merits of different storage protocols. Sounds deadly, but this can be quite a religious issue for folks, and it generated lively debate. I’m firmly in the “do what works” camp – there is no always-right protocol, and [...]
Reacting to TechTarget’s Storage Products of the Year
February 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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, [...]
Yowza! VMware is a Rocket!
August 14, 2007 By 1 Comment
Commercial SSDs Are Here?
August 14, 2007 By 11 Comments
Anyone paying attention knows I’m not particular sanguine about the near-term prospects for solid-state disks (SSDs) and hybrid hard disk drives (H-HDDs) in the enterprise storage space, but I’m not foolish enough to discount them entirely. With that in mind, it’s worthwhile noting the debut of the first commercially-available retail(ish) SATA SSD from SanDisk. Read [...]
Back from the All-Star break
July 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’m finally getting settled back in after my physical storage and migration effort these last few weeks! I’m now located in the heartland of Wooster, Ohio rather than the headland of Massachusetts! If it’s true that “stuff”, like gas, expands to fill all available space then at least I now have more space for my [...]
Storage History: The 3Server
June 25, 2007 By 5 Comments
NetApp heads to the buffet
June 21, 2007 By 1 Comment
