One of Mr. Toigo’s readers posted a thoughtful question about why IT isn’t more strategic in their thinking. I started writing this as a comment there, but it got longer and longer and I liked it more and more, so I put it here instead! I think this lack of strategic thinking is a reaction […]
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SRM For VMware (Thank God!)
So Symantec’s CommandCentral version 5.0 includes VMware-integrated SRM. Thank god! Has anyone out there been banging their head against the wall trying to figure out what’s taking up all their unstructured filesystem space? Well trying to get that information in a world of VMware virtual servers is like drilling through your forehead with an auger. […]
Information, Data, and Storage
My mom had a laugh way back then, when I got my first job in this industry: ” I always knew you’d wanted to be an architect,” she said, “but why does it have to be closets and garages?” That was me, Storage Architect at last! These days, when another parent at the soccer game […]
There Are Two Kinds…
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world, and those who don’t.” This week, EMC’s Chief Development Officer, Mark Lewis, posted a thoughtful blog “episode” supposing that there are two kinds of data in this world: OLTP and all of the rest. It’s an […]
Sailing the Titanic (Why We Need ILM and Then Some!)
Without getting into the debate on blogketing (I’ll save that for another post), I was pretty impressed by Chuck Hollis’ recent post on ILM. I think he’s made a good discussion of the wherefores of ILM, and maybe counteracted a bit of the prevailing anti-ILM argument. I’ve been in the trenches on storage content (aka […]