Interested in VMware and Storage? Tune In to the VMware Communities Podcast!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 14. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
I’ll be joining John Troyer’s VMware Communities Podcast #44 tomorrow, April 14, and will be leading a segment focused on the changing storage landscape. I’m really looking forward to talking with John and the rest, since this is such a solid, fair, and content-rich podcast series!
10 GbE, iSCSI, FCoE, Microsoft, and the Future
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT on 11. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
Last year, we were all wondering when the 10 GbE wave would hit and what impact it would have. That’s not worth pondering anymore. It’s not just the year of 10 GbE; 10-gig is the future of connectivity, and the future is here.
EMC LifeLine Spreads To The Iomega StorCenter Pro ix4-100
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 05. Feb, 2009 | View Comments
As I expected, EMC’s Iomega subsidiary today rolled out the StorCenter Pro ix4-100 a big brother to the popular but plain StorCenter ix2 NAS device. This new model add hot-swappable drives (there are four now), RAID-5, and a longer warranty to make it suitable for small office use. It uses a blacked-out version of the [...]
Storage Utilization Remains at 2001 Levels: Low!
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 13. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
I’ve been talking about storage capacity utilization for my entire career, but the storage industry doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere. Every year or so, a new study is performed showing that half of storage capacity in the data center is unused. And every time there is a predictable (and poorly thought through) “networked storage is [...]
EMC Makes Iomega Relevant Again
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 07. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
Pity poor old Iomega. The company responsible for hot products like the Zip drive and coulda-beens like the Clik drive was stumbling in the early part of this decade, unable to distinguish itself from all of the other providers of commodity external storage devices for consumers. Although the company had built the Zip into a [...]
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, [...]
Changes in Technology Drive Changes in IT Organizations and Roles
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 03. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
Lots of my IT infrastructure management clients are talking about how the advent of Ethernet/IP and virtualization is changing the roles of storage, server, and network administrators. The evolution of the storage role in particular in enterprise IT organizations has been a topic of particular interest to me for a while: I definitely remember thinking about [...]
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 [...]
EMC Atmos Versus VMware VDC-OS: Will The Real Cloud Strategy Please Stand Up?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 10. Nov, 2008 | View Comments
As I guessed on Friday, EMC has officially announced their Maui Atmos software layer today, calling it the “industry’s first COS (cloud-optimized storage) offering”, “a new era for IT”, and “a new category of storage.” So the new era for IT is a cloud with globally-distributed object stores with policy management?
Great! But I thought the [...]
Storage Virtualization Charlotte: Thoughts and Reactions
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 21. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve just finished my day in Charlotte on my Storage Virtualization Seminar tour for TechTarget. We had another great crowd – everyone seemed interested even if some were shy about speaking up. I was especially pleased to see the optimism about the city’s post-Wachovia future.
Comments at the event focused on management, with my concerns about [...]
