Archive for July, 2007
The Rains of Summer
Posted in Storage Solutions, Sustainability on July 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
When I landed at Heathrow it was raining. It has been raining for most of June and now July. I checked in to the Christopher Wren hotel in Windsor which backs up to the River Thames and I could see the river was already swollen. That evening the TV news was all about the flooding [...]
Energy Efficient Storage or Energy Efficient Disks
Posted in Best Practices on July 24th, 2007 6 Comments »
One of the charts in EMC’s recent DMX 4 announcement was entitled, “Energy Efficient Storage Design”. This chart showed the kWh/yr energy consumed by different types of disk drives for a total capacity of 750GB.
OPEX, the other Expense
Posted in Storage Economics on July 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
In the last few posts, I have been describing the elements of Capital expense or CAPEX, and how new technologies like control unit virtualization and thin provisioning can address these expenses.
Take Back your Storage
Posted in Best Practices on July 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
In my last post I talked about where all our storage is going and developed the following chart.
Who took my Storage?
Posted in Capacity Efficiency, Storage Economics on July 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
No matter how much storage capacity you buy it never seems to be enough. Jon Toigo did a presentation several years ago in which he described storage as being over subscribed and under utilized. He developed a chart of storage utilization which I have taken and modified slightly, but it is essentially the same as [...]
