Archive for June, 2011
Economics of the Storage Computer
Posted in Storage Economics, Storage Software, Virtualization on Jun 30, 2011 1 Comment »
I had a meeting with a State Government CIO this week. As is the case with most government clients, the discussion centered on cost reductions, and their perspective that in the future they need to “just buy cheaper disks” to get around their current IT budget difficulties.
Cost of Decommissioning Applications and Data
Posted in Storage Economics, Storage Software, Virtualization on Jun 7, 2011 No Comments »
Hu Yoshida posted a blog last week on the issues around data center transformation and the impact of Decommissioning Applications. Hu and I exchanged emails while I was in Europe on this topic, and he has asked that I put this issue into context around storage economics.
Hypervisors: Welcome to Storage Economics
Posted in Storage Economics, Storage Software, Virtualization on Jun 1, 2011 6 Comments »
For the past 12 years, I have been defining and refining principles, concepts, categories and models around storage economics. In the past few years, it has become necessary to move into adjacent infrastructure areas to identify, measure and reduce the costs of IT.
