Archive for April, 2007
Is Virtualization over rated?
Posted in Virtualization on April 29th, 2007 6 Comments »
Last week Beth Pariseau, News Writer for SeachStorage.com, published an interview with Jay Kidd of NetApp, with the title: “NetApp VP says storage virtualization over rated.”
Networking Storage to Storage
Posted in Storage Solutions, Virtualization on April 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Fibre Channel, Storage Area Networks were introduced in the late 1990’s to eliminate the islands of direct attached storage. It promised to consolidate storage and centralize management of storage and data resources. The assumption was that this consolidation and centralization would lead to better utilization of storage capacity which was then about 20 to 30%. [...]
When is CAS Not CAS?
Posted in Storage Software on April 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
Acronyms are so prolific in the IT industry; it often leads to misunderstanding or misinformation. I recently talked to an analyst who categorized our Hitachi Content Archive Plat form with CAS, which is another vendor’s product. If an industry analyst could be confused than I thought I should post a blog to clarify the difference [...]
What is required to network storage to storage?
Posted in Virtualization on April 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
I spoke at a SUN storage event in Burlington last week and had a chance to compare notes with Randy Chalfant, a CTO at SUN. Randy spends a lot of his time with customers analyzing storage requirements. He confirmed that utilization of storage for open systems today is only about 30% as I posted in [...]
