Archive for January, 2010
If I am doing more with less people and disk are getting cheaper, why are my costs increasing?
Posted in Storage Economics, Virtualization on Jan 31, 2010 1 Comment »
IT costs are increasing about 7 to 8 % per year. But when you look at industry spend on storage hardware that spend has been flat for many years, primarily due to Moore’s law. Storage densities continue to double about every 18 months. So where are we spending our IT budget? Most customers will agree [...]
New Considerations for Tiered Storage
Posted in Best Practices, Enterprise Solutions on Jan 26, 2010 19 Comments »
Tiered storage is one of those terms which people use freely and assume that everyone understands. The basic concept is that you can reduce the cost of storage by assigning your data to different cost tiers of storage depending on the requirements of the data. However, there are different technologies to address tiered storage which [...]
StorageIO Slam Dunks for 2010
Posted in Best Practices, Cloud on Jan 18, 2010 No Comments »
Greg Schulz posted a very comprehensive set of predictions on his StorageIO blog.
SSPs versus Cloud storage Services
Posted in Best Practices, Cloud on Jan 11, 2010 1 Comment »
While Cloud computing is touted as a new way to mask the complexity of the IT infrastructure and provide IT services as “a pay as you grow” service, these concepts were introduced over 10 years ago with the service providers of the late 1990’s. These concepts were so appealing that they helped to fuel the [...]
A Top Priority for 2010
Posted in Best Practices, Virtualization on Jan 4, 2010 2 Comments »
Happy NewYear and welcome to 2010! I wish you all a healthy and productive new year. While the economy seems to be getting better, budget planners are still very cautious and so we will continue to see a drive to consolidate to reduce cost and thin down the fat to be more agile. Therefore data center virtualization [...]
