Archive for the 'Virtualization' Category
Economic Crisis Part 2: Hoarding Cash
Posted in Capacity Efficiency, Storage Economics, Virtualization on February 3rd, 2012 1 Comment »
This is part two of a three-part blog series on strategies and tactics during an economic crisis. You can read part one here.
The Sky is Falling (Part 1)
Posted in Capacity Efficiency, Storage Economics, Virtualization on January 31st, 2012 2 Comments »
I hope you survived the solar flare-up the other day. I did not get my usual number of cell phone calls on Tuesday, so I am blaming the sun. I am convinced that if Chicken Little is ever proven right, it will be because of space junk falling into the earth’s atmosphere (after being melted [...]
Look Beyond the Price of HDD
Posted in Capacity Efficiency, Storage Economics, Virtualization on January 12th, 2012 6 Comments »
You may have heard news about the devastating floods in Thailand, and now the ripple effect of increased HDD prices due to mfg and supply shortages. HDS, EMC, NetApp, and IBM have all stated temporary price increases of 5-15% for the next few months. It is at these times that we need to step back [...]
Hypervisor Economics
Posted in Storage Economics, Virtualization on November 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Storage economic principles and concepts are expanding (at HDS) beyond the storage realm—where it has grown up over the last 12 years. Data center costs, VDI, converged platforms, servers and hypervisors infrastructures all have the same requirement to identify and reduce unit costs.
Storage Virtualization – A Foundation for Economically Superior Storage Architectures
Posted in Storage Economics, Virtualization on November 15th, 2011 1 Comment »
Two weeks ago, I shared the stage at Gartner’s ITxpo with Paulette Scheffer from Adobe. Our combined message was on the economic impact of storage virtualization. It was a great fusion of theory (me) and real-world experience (Paulette) on how storage virtualization has a direct impact on the unit cost of storage. The presentation was [...]
Profit Sharing
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Return on Assets, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics, Virtualization on September 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Actually the title of this blog should be “Cost Savings Sharing,” but that is not a very catchy way to draw you in.
Hypervisor Economics – Excerpts From An Upcoming Paper – Part 3
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Return on Assets, Storage Economics, TCO, Virtualization on September 6th, 2011 1 Comment »
This is the third and final post in a three-part series of excerpts from an upcoming paper on Hypervisor Economics (part one and two here). Please share your comments, questions and feedback below.
Hypervisor Economics – Excerpts From An Upcoming Paper – Part 2
Posted in CAPEX, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics, TCO, Virtualization on September 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
This post is the second of a three-part series of excerpts from an upcoming paper on Hypervisor Economics (you can find part one here). As always, I look forward to reading your comments and feedback below.
Hypervisor Economics – Excerpts From An Upcoming Paper – Part 1
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Return on Assets, Storage Economics, TCO, Virtualization on August 31st, 2011 2 Comments »
In my next few posts, I’ll be sharing some excerpts from an upcoming paper on hypervisor economics. Feel free to provide comments and feedback below.
Think Like an Economist, Talk Like an Accountant, Act Like a Technologist
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Storage Economics, Virtualization on August 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
I have been marginalized.
With all the recent news and talk of budget caps, debt limits and austerity plans, it seems as if everyone is an economist these days. There certainly is a lot of frightening news, and some predictions that we may return to business and national economic patterns that we saw 3-4 years ago. [...]
