This is item #23 of 32, the categories that make up storage ownership costs. This next one is often deemed a soft cost, but how data is stored and made available to developers can be factored into the cost of storage ownership. The basic premise is that when developers are testing new apps, or creating […]

Several times a week, I check on my Dallas Mavericks, to see where they are in the NBA standings. This week, I also checked out my own standing on the estimated 55 million bloggers. According to Technorati, I am ranked 284,864. I am so happy, think I will add this to my Christmas letter……
I would […]

Between Thanksgiving and a radical travel schedule, I have neglected my blog space long enough. Lets get back to defining 2 more (of the 32) types of storage ownership cost categories.
#19 - Labor time for provisioning, reclamation, workload balancing - with or without storage management tools, there can be a significant amount of labor spent […]

I need to take some use-or-lose vacation by the end of the year, and with my travel plans to New York and Sydney planned for December, I will have to be off all next week for the US thanksgiving holiday. My kids hope there is enough snow in Salt Lake for some skiing or at […]

I was speaking at a partner event this week in NJ, and shared the stage with VMware. During the discussion, a mention was made about Pacific Gas and Electric, a large US utility company, offering rebates (or financial incentives) for data centers that invest in server virtualization technology. This rebate is due to the lower […]

I have been tardy in keeping up with this BLOG stream of storage cost categories. I will try to get a few more posts in before the thanksgiving holiday.
# 15 - Cost of Electricity - Storage assets, like all IT assets consume large quantities of electricity. Steady-state operation, including power conditioning, batter back-up, UPS systems […]

Our corp professional blogger Jeremiah is leaving HDS and heading to Podtech. Our loss is their gain. Jeremiah got me plugged into the blogsphere to extend the messaging of storage economics about 5 months ago, it has been a pleasure to have his help and coaching with the process. Hu offered you dinner, I will match […]

I will be in NY and NJ next week, speaking at SUN / SSI Partner events. You can click here to register for the NJ event on Nov 15. This link will take you to the sign-up for NYC dinner event on the 16th.
 If you have been following my blog, and are in the area next week, […]

Early morning in Melbourne….. .a good time to get up and take care of business (4 am) before a work-day. I am taking a break from my countdown of 32 types of storage cost today….
Some interesting dialog on Storage Mojo. In the discussion between Robin and Hu, the talk is on cheap disk. We have […]

Getting on a plane from Kuala Lumpur back to Singapore this afternoon, I read the headlines in the local newspaper "BLOGGERS BEWARE". This of course piqued my interest. I guess the prime minister of Malaysia does not want people telling lies or half-truths on the internet. Good thing I got out before my blog site […]