As this week is going to fairly interesting at SNWUSA in Santa Clara I thought I\’d might give some short daily updates. In the twittersphere there is already some great noise spread with all schedules around #storagebeers and other social interactions. Yesterday was travelday for me. Getting on a massive Airbus A380 is always quite […]
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Why do I keep wondering why companies don\’t maintain their infrastructure. It looks to be more of an exception than a rule to come along software and firmware which is newer than 6 months old. True, I admit, it\’s a beefy task to keep this all lined up but then again you know this in
I\’ve said it before, storage is not simple. There are numerous things you have to take into account when designing and managing a storage network. The collaboration between applications, IO stacks and storage networks have to be very stable in order to get something useful out of it both in stability as well as performance.
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Voila, there it is. The fox is in the hen-house. Now let me explain before I get the entire world over me. 🙂First I do not say that software developers are incompetent. I fact I think they are extremely smart people. Second, the main reason for my statement is given the fact Moors\’ law is
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Storage vendors are getting nervous. The time has come that SMB/SME level storage systems can be build from scratch with just servers, JBOD\’s and some sort of connectivity. Most notably SUN (or Oracle these days) has been very busy in this area. Most IP was already within SUN, Solaris source code has been made available,
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Do you have kids crawling around the internet and you don\’t have a clue of what they\’re doing. (I know this has nothing to do with storage but I couldn\’t leave this one just for myself.) I\’ve had that same problem and I\’ve tried numerous things however last week I came across a very nifty
Something different Read More »
How much tools do you use to manage your storage environment. On average the storage admin uses 5 tools to manage a storage infrastructure. 1. Host tools (for getting host info like used capacity, volume configs etc.)2. HBA tools (some OS\’es don\’t have a clue around that)3. Fabric tools (extremely important)4. Array tools (even more
Save money managing storage effectively Read More »
Yeah its been a while. A lot has happened in two years. One thing that really jumps out is I moved Down Under. Yep, now inhabitant of kangarooland and I\’ve loved every day of it. To storage:You don\’t want to know how many questions I get who\’s answers have been perfectly described in all sorts
This article is somewhat a successor to my first blog \”The future of storage\”. I discussed my article with Vincent Franceschini personally a while ago and although we have some different opinions on some topics, in general we agree on the setting we have to get more insight on the business value of data. This
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Lets start off with a question: Who is the best storage admin?1. The one that starts at 07:00 AM and leaves at 18:00 PM2. The one that starts at 09:00 AM and leaves at 16:00 PM Two simple answers but they can make a world of difference to employers. Whenever an employer answers with no.
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