In order to reduce costs, more and more users are looking to server and storage virtualization to enable consolidation, improve utilization, simplify operations, improve performance, and deliver improved data protection and availability.  While server and storage virtualization can be implemented separately, an integrated end-to-end server to storage virtualization can drive higher efficiencies for business continuity [...]

At SNW, Computerworld surveys the audience intermittently using an electronic Audience Response Survey device. In between keynote sessions a question was posted on the screen with a short list of multiple choice answers and the audience was asked to select their response by clicking a button on their ARS device.  The answers were tabulated in [...]

In view of EMC’s  recent earnings report, Barry Burke, an EMC blogger also known as “the storage anarchist”,  posted an April Fools parody to deflect attention away from their earnings results and poke fun at an HDS promotion that any savvy storage customer would value.

During these days of tight IT budgets, CIO’s are looking for ways to increase the utilization of their existing storage assets and reduce operational costs. HDS is announcing a promotion today that will help to address these requirements. This promotion, which begins May 6 and runs through the end of this year, will provide free [...]

As defined by Chuck Hollis, “Frankenstorage appears to be — storage arrays, assembled from various parts from multiple vendors, brought to life by the magic of PowerPoint’s and press releases.”

George Crump and I are having a conversation about doing more with less, driving out cost while increasing efficiency through the use of virtualization. We agree for the most part except where I say that virtualization should be able to enhance commodity storage. He does not think that is important to the enterprise. As proof [...]

My last post on Storage Switzerland’s post on storage virtualization seemed to have generated some interest in the storage blogging community.  StorageBod focused on my comment that Storage virtualization with the USP V can enhance commodity storage with the enterprise functions of the USP V controller.  He comes to the conclusion that the USP V [...]

George Crump of Storage Switzerland posted “Your Storage Has To Do More With Less, Too” on InformationWeek’s Storage Blog. He made some excellent points about the need for storage virtualization but I think he missed one of the most important points – the ability for virtualization to enhance commodity storage.

It has often been difficult to find IT shops who accurately measure the improvements that they make in their shops due to the pressure of other demands. While this may make them seem more productive, it hampers their ability to quantify the improvements they have made and get credit for the monetary impact they have [...]

David West of Commvault posted a byline in Data Storage Protection entitled “Getting ready for the ripple effect.” In this article he talks about President Obama’s stimulus package of $787B and the ripple effect it will have on the data demands for storage once the recovery starts. In particular he mentions the $20B allocated to [...]