Archive for May, 2011
Data integrity for lower cost tiers of storage
Posted in Storage Economics, Tech Talk on May 27, 2011 No Comments »
A question was recently raised as to how we ensure data integrity with SATA drives, which are limited to a 512 sector size and cannot support the additional 8 check bytes that SCSI FC, iSCSI, and SAS drives use to provide this assurance.
Tiering with SATA or Capacity Enhanced SAS
Posted in Storage Software, Virtualization on May 23, 2011 7 Comments »
I seemed to have touched a nerve with Barry Burke in my last post on tiered storage myths, where I talked about the advantages of tiering across internal and external tiers of storage. Since EMC is not able to provide this capability Barry went on a long rant on why he thinks Hitachi Data Systems [...]
Making a Deeper Commitment to Our Partners
Posted in Tech Talk on May 17, 2011 2 Comments »
When Storage Area Networks were being introduced over 10 years ago, Hitachi recognized that a new storage architecture would be required to support the networking and scalability requirements of this new technology. So Hitachi introduced an internal switch architecture with our Lightning 9900 family of enterprise storage products to meet these new demands. Hitachi also [...]
Busting 6 Myths About Tiered Storage
Posted in Enterprise Solutions, Hardware on May 16, 2011 8 Comments »
The tiering of storage is a valuable tool for reducing costs and improving efficiencies in many ways. There are different levels of tiering, as I mentioned in my previous post, and the value that we derive from tiering can vary depending on the different types of tiering. There are also several myths about tiering of [...]
Data Center Transformation and Green IT Initiatives at VMworld This Year
Posted in IT Transformation, Tech Talk, Virtualization on May 13, 2011 No Comments »
Green IT initiatives can accelerate, and even pay for data center transformation. That is the thesis of my speaking session proposal currently under consideration for VMworld this year. The public voting process to decide the sessions that will make it to the final agenda of the conference, which takes place August 29 – September 1 [...]
The Differences Between Tiering and HSM – Hierarchical Storage Management
Posted in Hardware, Storage Software, Virtualization on May 12, 2011 1 Comment »
In a recent post I described the different forms of tiering. Today I’d like to discuss another form of tiering that is used in the mainframe: Hierarchical Storage Management or HSM. This is a licensed product that was originally called DFHSM and later renamed DFSMShsm when it was integrated with DFSMS.
Congratulations to Lloyds Banking Group for the 2011 Financial Sector Technology Awards
Posted in Best Practices, Hardware, Virtualization on May 5, 2011 No Comments »
In the first quarter of this year, the Financial Sector Technology Group held an award event in London where IT groups from all major financial institutions came together to recognize the best practices and achievements in IT over the past year.
