Archive for April, 2010
The Economics of Storage Tiering
Posted in Storage Economics on Apr 21, 2010 No Comments »
Hu Yoshida seemed to hit a nerve a few weeks ago with some blog comments around tiering, the economics and practicality of in-box tiering (aka intermix) and the out-of-box tiering through external arrays/virtualization. Depending on how you architect and deploy tiering and the static or dynamic nature of the tiers, your economics or unit costs [...]
Another Storage-Cloud-Disk-TCO-Touchstone
Posted in Cloud, Storage Economics on Apr 8, 2010 1 Comment »
I have been asked to provide more content on storage cloud and the economic effects or considerations. Lucky for me (it is my birthday week), I was handed this article that does a good job of outlining TCO of do-it-yourself or through a cloud subscription service.
Hadoop and Storage Growth
Posted in Best Practices, Cloud, Storage Economics, Storage Software on Apr 2, 2010 1 Comment »
A fun way to start yesterday (April fools) with a clever view of the storage blogosphere. Thanks Devang for some comic relief.
