Storage protocols continue to mimic direct attached storage, with the concepts of block and file at its core. No amount of virtualization, and no new protocol, will fix this – we need a storage revolution.
Where Will Virtualization of Data Center Infrastructure Take Us?
April 23, 2011 By 8 Comments
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 technology should be hiding! True business value is derived from transformed virtual resources in the next-generation data center, not the incremental capacity gains of virtual servers. But how will we get there, and what will this future look like?
Granularity: The Hidden Challenge of Storage Management
April 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
Many storage challenges focus on the conflict between data management, which demands an ever-smaller unit of management, and storage management, which benefits most from consolidation. Developing data management capability that is both granular enough for applications and scalable enough for storage is one key to the future of storage.
Physical Security for the Road Warrior
November 30, 2008 By 2 Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I am posting on Sundays. In this digital age, it is easy to overlook the critical element of physical security. Put simply, it is often far more efficient to steal or gain access to a physical object like a laptop or flash drive than to [...]
Flash Forward or Flash Back?
November 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I am posting every Sunday. The tech industry has been buzzing about solid state drives (SSDs) again lately, but many questions remain. Even after many major vendors (Apple, EMC, and Dell to name a few) have introduced NAND flash-based disk into their core products, it is [...]
What Elections Teach Us About Marketing
November 2, 2008 By 1 Comment
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday. This is not a political blog, and this will not be a political post. But there is something to be learned about marketing from the way that political campaigns market their candidates, and this is a lesson for all [...]
Out of the Office and Away From Home
October 26, 2008 By 2 Comments
It is acceptable to give exceptional effort to your job, but far less so to have this become the normal expectation. One should never settle for accommodations or treatment from work that we would not be willing to offer to ourselves.
Reality Check: The FCoE Forecast
October 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
The Future of Home Storage
October 12, 2008 By 10 Comments
Consumers demand friendly, flexible solutions. They don’t want to fuss with their media, and they don’t want simple shared storage. They want integration with multiple devices and flexibility to access their content on any device.
A Consultant’s View Of The Enterprise Storage Market
September 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
