Archive for February, 2010
The Economics of Cartesian Scaling
Posted in Cloud, ROI, Return on Assets, Software, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics, Virtualization on February 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
Can you think and talk in 3-dimensions? Our theater-going experience seems to have taken on a 3-D standard as of late; perhaps our operational, technical and economic metrics around storage is about to do the same.
Try to Ignore the Cost of the Disk Drive
Posted in Cloud, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics, TCO, Virtualization on February 22nd, 2010 3 Comments »
A year or so ago, my colleague Claus Mikkelsen made a bold statement to storage architects that in their planning they had to start assuming the price of disk to be at zero. Certainly at HDS, eyebrows were raised, but he is right, the price of the drive itself keeps dropping. When measured in the [...]
Get Help Somewhere
Posted in Storage Economics on February 19th, 2010 No Comments »
There is an old commercial that ran on television here in the US markets that promoted a drug/alcohol/addiction recovery center. The end of the commercial had an interesting statement: “If you don’t get help from us, please get help somewhere.”
ROI and ROA
Posted in ROI, Return on Assets, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics on February 5th, 2010 1 Comment »
Lately, people have asked me about the difference of ROI and ROA, both techniques that we use in defining storage economics. Here is my IT-econ perspective.
