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Seen that? – ISCSI vs. FC performance A closer look
ISCSI vs. FC performance A closer look On Storage
ISCSI vs. FC performance: A closer look: What weighs more: one pound of bricks or one pound of Feathers? Which is faster: 2 Gb FC or 1 Gb Ethernet? Hint: Both questions have the same answer. A very interesting post from Tony Asaro. I haven't yet had any experience with iSCSI, so I'm really not in a position to have much of an opinion. My git tells me that iSCSI will inherently [...] Read More
SNIA lab shows iSCSI is for real On Storage
Techworld.com – SNIA lab shows iSCSI is for real: I don't know about you, but I've been hearing about iSCSI from vendors for years now. I've always steered away from it, preferring to stick with either pure fibre attached into a SAN, or ether attached into a NAS (using NFS mostly, occasionally CYFS/SMB). iSCSI always looked attractive, but I could never really bring myself to invest the time and effort into trying [...] Read More
An iSCSI primer On Storage
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 installation and a similar fibre channel setup. I think 10Gb will be the tipping point for IP vs fibre based technologies – at my day job, we went SAN because of performance. It didn't fit our main application model, we've [...] Read More
High CEO pay = low returns Sox First
We've all heard the arguments justifying soaring CEO pay. They say it's all about motivating, recruiting and retaining talented executives. Otherwise they will go elsewhere.A new study Performance for pay? The relationship between CEO incentive compensation and future stock price performance from academics at the University of Utah and Purdue University show that's just crap.The researchers looked at 1500 companies that extended incentive compensation to their CEOs between 1994 [...] Read More
Does pay for performance pay? Sox First
Interesting findings from Mercer Human Resource Consulting which reveals that the number of CEOs receiving option grants is slipping and there has been a decrease in those receiving restricted stock grants. However, the number of CEOs performance shares, including performance-contingent restricted stock, was up sharply. So there is a bigger focus by shareholders on performance pay.But is it delivering results?As the Mercer report says, investors continue to be unhappy with [...] Read More