Filed in archive
Opinion
, Planning/Strategy
, Technology
on May 11, 2006
Hu Yoshida's Blog: What is on a CIO's mind?:
While the easy (cheap?) answer is "Golf, expensive scotch, and a new BMW 7 series" I think we all know that that's probably not real...
Filed in archive
Planning/Strategy
on May 11, 2006
The Blog of Ben Rockwood - My Server Room Is On Fire:
"The horrible truth, we tend to avoid things untill they are unavoidable. In many cases our threshold for putting up with something broken ...
Filed in archive
Backup
, Planning/Strategy
, Security
on May 9, 2006
Insecure about Security:
Here's the reality, plain and simple. Since the ChoicePoint breach in February 2005 there have been 9 publicly-disclosed data breach incidents involving tape loss startin...
Filed in archive
Planning/Strategy
, Pricing
on May 9, 2006
DrunkenData.com » Blog Archive » Want to get a better deal on storage?:
Ahhh, the time-honoured technique of dropping a competitor's name to get your vendor's sales guy to drop the price a fe...
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NAS
, Planning/Strategy
, Pricing
, Technology
on May 2, 2006
PC World Review of 1TB Arrays
If you're looking for something a bit more comprehensive for home, or some sort of external storage for a small satellite office, this review of 8 trabyte storage...
Filed in archive
Methodology
, Opinion
, Planning/Strategy
, Security
on April 19, 2006
Securing Data When Data Is Everywhere - Computerworld:
A security manager's Nightmare...
"When it comes down to it, a security manager's job is about protecting information assets. B...
Filed in archive
Legal/Legislation
, Methodology
, Planning/Strategy
on April 16, 2006
Hu Yoshida's Blog: Misunderstandings About Storage Virtualization:
Hu Yoshida weighs in with his viewpoint on vendor-lockin on Storage Virtualisation systems. *phew*. Interesting view, and makes...
Filed in archive
Legal/Legislation
, Methodology
, Planning/Strategy
, Technology
on April 16, 2006
DrunkenData.com » Blog Archive » Un-ingestion:
I'm a big fan of open standards - if for no reason other than to avoid this sort of scenario.
Our dev team at work is doing some work customizing o...
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Methodology
, Planning/Strategy
, Pricing
on April 15, 2006
David Merrill's Blog: Jumping into Storage Economics:
Like it or not, we need, as systems/storage admins to be more aware of the monetary aspects of business as they relate to our parts of work, ...
Filed in archive
Planning/Strategy
on April 5, 2006
Using Data We Have to Improve Data We Get - Computerworld:
While the linked article is about leveraging your existing reported information to enhance your request for more budget to allow you to ge...
Filed in archive
Backup
, Planning/Strategy
, Technology
on April 5, 2006
Storage Advisors » Living Loving MAID:
MAID? You sure you didn't terminally typo RAID?
MAID stands for Massive Arrays of Idle Disks. The term was first coined in the January 2002 whitepaper of t...
Filed in archive
Methodology
, Planning/Strategy
, Technology
on April 2, 2006
Network Appliance, Inc. - DaveBlog : : : : ::
RAIDs are designed to prevent the loss of data in the event of a disk failure - but the risk to the data in a RAID set is dramatically increased while ...
Filed in archive
Methodology
, Planning/Strategy
on March 12, 2006
The rise of 'in between' storage tiers - Computerworld:
Somtimes, your needs don't exactly match what the vendor is selling. Sometimes, if you're lucky, the vendor comes up with anoth...
Filed in archive
Planning/Strategy
on March 12, 2006
Hu Yoshida's Blog: Four years is a long time:
Hu Yoshida from Hitachi Data Systems looks forward 4 years, to the time of the next Winter Olympics, to try and predict what Enterprise storage custo...
Filed in archive
EMC
, HP
, Planning/Strategy
on March 5, 2006
HP, EMC and others hint at their next moves
Some hints, but not a lot of actual meat on some very bare bones.
If I can paraphrase, HP are going to continue being HP, and EMC (and Dell and Microsoft, ...
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NetApp
, Opinion
, Planning/Strategy
on March 2, 2006
NetApp SpinServer user walks away:
Ouch - painful, yet not-uncommon story.
This guy buys a huge array from a startup - startup gets bought by vendor - guy has problems with array - vendor doesn'...
Filed in archive
Legal/Legislation
, Methodology
, Planning/Strategy
on February 26, 2006
Turning information into gold:
All of the data in the world isn't a lot of use to you, unless you can extract those precious nuggets of relevant information from it.
IBM is investing $1 billion ...
Filed in archive
Backup
, Planning/Strategy
on February 19, 2006
Remote backup in the spotlight | Computerworld Blogs:
Sixty to 70% of mission-critical data is off-site - and the bulk of that is likely unprotected. And these numbers don't factor in all the dat...
Filed in archive
Methodology
, Opinion
, Planning/Strategy
on February 19, 2006
Addicted to data - Computerworld:
"Unlike oil, the problem [with data] isn't a shrinking supply -- quite the opposite. We are smothering in its abundance. Data storage continues double-digit...
Filed in archive
Planning/Strategy
, Security
, Technology
on February 19, 2006
These two articles combine to make me (with my security admin hat on) very, very nervous.
Seagate plans 12GB music player/cell-phone drive
Back up your PC -- to your phone?
laptops are bad enoug...
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NAS
, Planning/Strategy
, SAN
, Technology
on February 18, 2006
An iSCSI primer:
I believe it [iSCSI] to have a very bright future, especially with 10-Gb Ethernet on the way and the significant difference in acquisition costs between a complete iSCSI installati...
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Planning/Strategy
, Technology
, Virtual
on February 18, 2006
Avoiding storage virtualization for dummies - Computerworld:
Users continue to avoid network-based block virtualization like the plague. Yet what I can't understand is why you would implement a ...
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Planning/Strategy
, Pricing
, Vendor
on February 18, 2006
Buying from resellers has its rewards:
Buying storage gear from the channel needn't be as dicey as you might imagine as long as you know what to look out for. Aaron D. Sawchuk, co-founder and chi...
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Cluster
, Grid
, Planning/Strategy
, Technology
on February 14, 2006
the lone sysadmin: When to Cluster, When to Build Big:
When you're building a medium-large sized service there's a Fundamental choice you have to make: do you build it on one big machine or d...
Filed in archive
Methodology
, Online
, Planning/Strategy
, SAN
on February 9, 2006
Fast Guide: Advanced SAN:
From techtarget.com:
Now that you're beyond the basics of SAN and into more complex configuration solutions, troubleshooting performance issues, strategies and managem...
Filed in archive
NAS
, Planning/Strategy
, Technology
on February 9, 2006
A couple of potentially useful white-papers from computerworld - probably not a whole lot of new information in there for most of you, but I find this sort of thing to be useful when presenting busin...
Filed in archive
Methodology
, NetApp
, Planning/Strategy
, Vendor
on February 2, 2006
Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks. - DaveBlog
A Sun employee, an EMC employee and a NetApp employee are all at the funeral of a mutual friend. The Sun employee says, "We have a tradition at...
Filed in archive
Planning/Strategy
, Pricing
on February 1, 2006
Four infamous IT meltdowns | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-01-30 | By Dan Tynan:
It's never going to be a good excuse for blowing a budget, but at least it might make you feel a little better abou...
Filed in archive
Opinion
, Planning/Strategy
, Pricing
, Technology
, Vendor
on February 1, 2006
Vendor Warning Signs:
It's almost axiomatic: All Vendors Suck. Some suck less than others, and at different times, and for different reasons - but they all suck.
When does the generic vendor suc...
Filed in archive
Opinion
, Planning/Strategy
on January 27, 2006
Plan ahead to skip storage snags:
So, what can a storage network admin do to lighten their urgent load? Focus on the important as well as the urgent. Set aside and schedule some time every day for im...
