Changing Times Demand Focus
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 02. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
Corporate IT is at a crossroads. The financial crisis has had a massive impact on budget priorities: Do more with less is the message of the day. But how can this be achieved?
Challenges for Enterprise IT
I’ve spent 15 years focused on the business of IT, with a special interest in data storage, since it makes [...]
Two New Storage Decisions Sessions for 2009: Capacity Management and Radical Tiered Storage!
Posted by Stephen in Everything on 24. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
I’m pleased to announce that I will be presenting at all four of TechTarget’s excellent end user-focused 2009 Storage Decisions conferences in North America! I’m also very excited to be developning two entirely new sessions for the show:
Tools and Tricks to Manage Capacity – Knowing how much disk capacity you have allocated, how much is [...]
Clean Up Your Mac! Essential OS X Tidiness Tools and Techniques
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 19. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
Do you really know what is taking up all of your disk space? Unless you have a good tool, the answer is probably not. You might think that your “Documents” folder takes up most of the room, since you use it all the time and it has so many files in it. But even the bloated files produced by Microsoft Office pale in comparison to multimedia photo, music, and video files. And it is usually the folders that you don’t actively manage that are the worst space-wasters!
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Storage Utilization Waterfall: Raw, Usable, and Used
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 01. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
My February 2003 column for Storage magazine focused on the surprising difficulty of measuring storage utilization. I wrote:
“A true measurement of utilization would reflect every layer of usage metrics – from raw disk in a shared array to used storage within files. Raw storage for each new frame of reference is contained within the [...]
