Archive for December, 2008
Musings on a National CTO
Posted in Industry Talk on December 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
Last week I was in Washington D.C. to meet with some of our customers in the federal government agencies as well as with systems integrators. It is always interesting and enjoyable for me to visit D.C., especially during the Christmas season, and especially now as the Obama transition team is working towards the January 20th [...]
SOSS in action
Posted in Virtualization on December 17th, 2008 8 Comments »
This week Hitachi made a few announcements to increase performance for the USP V family. Monday we announced the general availability of a flash-based SSD drive option in the USP V and USP VM. While on Tuesday we announced the certification of the USP V and USP VM with the new High Performance FICON (zHPF) [...]
Forrester says you don’t need a SAN
Posted in Hardware, Industry Talk on December 16th, 2008 5 Comments »
Andy Reichman of Forrester, published a report on December 4, entitled: Do you really need a SAN anymore?
ROA - A metric for storage virtualization
Posted in Storage Economics, Virtualization on December 9th, 2008 2 Comments »
ROA or Return on Assets is the value of that can be derived from existing assets through the use of storage virtualization.
