Archive for May, 2007
A Thinner, Greener You
Posted in Storage Economics on May 18, 2007 1 Comment »
“Does this storage array make my hips look big?” I know this is probably the front-end of a really bad data center joke, told late at night during a microcode upgrade. Nevertheless, our storage arrays are sort of chunky… lots of excess waste or unallocated (or unallocatable) capacity that is visible by IT management. When [...]
Mature Enough
Posted in Storage Economics on May 11, 2007 No Comments »
I have been working with several large clients the past month, and have seen again first hand the importance of making storage architecture changes that are consistent with where one is. I know that sounds like bad english…. and it probably is. IT planners and architects want to take advantage of new technologies to improve [...]
