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!
Symantec’s Thin API: The Plot Thickens
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 24. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Last week, I lauded Symantec for introducing an API in Storage Foundation which will interact with the thin storage capabilities of supported arrays. Since then, I’ve learned more about this capability, and I am writing this update to share that knowledge. As I noted last week, the press release was a bit hard to follow and [...]
Symantec’s Thin API Is A Step In The Right Direction
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 16. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Symantec announced that their widely-used Veritas Storage Foundation software (more commonly known as Veritas Volume Manager and filesystem) will now include thin provisioning, migration, and a new API which allows it to directly communicate with thin-capable storage arrays. This is a smart step, certainly, and ought to be useful, but storage managers should still try [...]
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, [...]
How Long Should Companies Retain Email?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 07. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
One of the key questions asked of me in my current position at Contoural is this one: How long should we (the client company) save our email messages? Not surprisingly, I encounter a wide variety of answers to this question – Legal and IT usually wants a short retention time, while end users seem to [...]
Toot Toot: Email Archiving e-Book Chapter 6
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 13. Dec, 2007 | View Comments
As I mentioned before, and again, I’ve been working with a team at Contoural on an e-Book for TechTarget on the topic of email archiving. Chapter 6, focused on running an RFP, was just published. This is sponsored by Symantec. Go grab a copy for yourself!
Toot Toot: Email Archiving e-Book Chapter 5
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 10. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
As I mentioned before, I’ve been working with a team at Contoural on an e-Book for TechTarget on the topic of email archiving. Chapter 5, which focuses on product selection, was just published. Go grab a copy for yourself!
Toot Toot: Email Archiving e-Book
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 17. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
I’ve been working with a team at Contoural on an e-Book for TechTarget on the topic of email archiving, sponsored by Symantec. Now that four chapters are posted, I thought I would mention it. I’ve written two more chapters, which will probably be posted in the coming months, and will be working on [...]
NetBackup 6.5 Spreads the Love Around
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 14. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Symantec announced availability of the latest NetBackup revision today, version 6.5. This release is nearly complete in its buzzword-compliance, with enhanced support for VTL and backup to disk, data deduplication, CDP, LAN-free backup, SharePoint and Exchange, and even VMware! What’s the matter, Symantec, was Thin Provisioning not ready for release? How about [...]
Yowza! VMware is a Rocket!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 14. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
EMC floated 10% of VMware today as an IPO (NYSE:VMW) and wow, is it taking off. Starting at $29, it’s at $51 after a couple of hours of trading, making EMC’s $635 million investment in 2003 worth $19 billion today. If this price is maintained (which I doubt it will be), VMware would [...]
