Thin Provisioning and Cloud Storage: My Interop 2010 Topics

Thin Provisioning and Cloud Storage: My Interop 2010 Topics

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 16. Mar, 2010 | View Comments

I’m pleased to be heading back to Interop this spring with two sessions on enterprise storage. Although significantly changed from the old “Networld + Interop” days, the event is enjoyable and technical, with many interesting sessions and speakers. And the New York show at least had plenty of end user attendees!

Pillar First To Put Faith In 2 TB Enterprise Drives

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 27. Aug, 2009 | View Comments

That didn’t take long! Just two weeks ago, Xyratex announced that they would support Hitachi Global Storage’s 2 TB enterprise hard disk drives. We wondered at the time which OEM would be the first to ship such massive drives, and our question is answered today. Pillar Data announced today that they are now supplying 2 [...]

If Storage Vendors Were Automakers…

Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Personal on 07. Aug, 2009 | View Comments

If the enterprise storage market was the auto market, who would be who?*

EMC Cuts Staff as Recession Continues

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 04. Dec, 2008 | View Comments

Apparently, some were annoyed, offended, or hurt by this post. For that, I sincerely apologize. My intent was to reach out to my friends at the company in this difficult time, but what I meant doesn’t help those who are directly affected.
I have only one question: What is the right thing to do when bad [...]

Is Flash A Disk Or A Cache?

Is Flash A Disk Or A Cache?

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 22. Oct, 2008 | View Comments

There is a battle shaping up in the enterprise storage industry. On one side are those who see flash storage as an upgrade for the disk drive, and on the other are those who see it as a cache between the CPU and the drive. It’s a fundamental difference of opinion – flash chips can [...]

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