Archive for October, 2007
Greco Exabyte
Posted in Tech Talk on Oct 27, 2007 No Comments »
I have not been to the movies in quit awhile, so on my last flight from Singapore I took the time to watch an in flight movie. I happened to select Ocean’s 13, which starred George Clooney and Brad Pitt. As some of you may know the plot is about breaking a Casino in Las Vegas [...]
Sustainable Data Storage Services – Data Islandia
Posted in Best Practices, Sustainability on Oct 22, 2007 5 Comments »
Last week at SNW, one of the hottest topics was “Green”. Every vendor promoted their “Green” technology, which often was nothing more than the use of larger capacity disks or tapes to replace lower capacity disks. While I agree that any thing that enables us to store more data capacity for less power consumption can [...]
Sustainability is more than “Green”
Posted in Best Practices on Oct 14, 2007 No Comments »
Last week I was invited to attend the Wal-Mart Living Better Sustainability Summit which was held in Rodgers Arkansas for their suppliers. This meeting was chaired by their CEO Lee Scott and his management team. I was hosted by Nancy Stewart their CTO and Rita Carney, VP of Applications Enablement. Wal-Mart launched their Sustainability program [...]
Virtualization Relieves Migration Pain
Posted in Best Practices, Virtualization on Oct 6, 2007 No Comments »
As we move into the year end quarter, IT folks are reviewing their storage investments to determine what leases are expiring and what has been capitalized and needs to be refreshed. As they review their situation it occurs to them that the replacement of storage will be a much more difficult task than it was the last [...]
