Rick Villars of IDC believes that the predominant storage system in the future will be modular, two controller, storage systems. While modular storage will continue to be the storage of choice for the midrange market, it will have an expanding presence in the enterprise market as “role based” storage systems. This is storage that meets a […]

I had the pleasure of hosting a panel of CIO’s for Camp IT’s  IT Leadership Strategy Conference in Rosemont, Illinois. The topic was “The Next IT Wave: What Might It Be and How Can You Prepare For It”. The panelists we had were excellent with a wide range of experiences. Kim Tracy, Executive Director, University […]

In Open systems, application users must preallocate the storage capacity that they need before they begin to write to storage, and they must request enough storage capacity so that their application does not run out of capacity in the middle of a peak processing period. Since there is no accurate way to predict how much capacity they will […]

Network world published an article on June 5th 2008, with the title: Which Virtualization technologies are ripe: Forrester’s take.  “According to Forrester, as of Q2 2008, server and client virtualization is mature enough to pay off in the short term, but storage virtualization-particularly application storage-is “not very advanced” and doesn’t yet offer much payback.”
According to […]

Safe multi-tenancy, is a term that few people seem to understand. I was observing a focus session recently, and when that term was used, no one in the four sessions that I observed seemed to know what it meant. 
Multi-tenancy, means that multiple users can share the same resources.. A hotel provides beds for many users […]

This is an old advertisement for the anchor Buggy Company which shows a picture of a young lady and an old lady. I would guess that most of you would see the young lady and wonder where the old lady is. Most of you have probably seen the W. C. Hill version of this during […]

Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, HDP, has been enhanced today to support Synchronous (TrueCopy) and Asynchronous (HUR) remote replication. Now we can replicate thin provisioned volumes to thin provisioned volumes, on any virtualized storage device to any virtualized storage device. What does this all mean?
Open systems users must reserve capacity for a volume before they can start […]

I was recently on CIO Talk Radio with Sanjog Aul our host, Jeff Nick of EMC, John Webster of Illluminata, and Phil Edholm of Nortel Networks when the subject of Virtualization 2.0 came up. Virtualization 2.0 was introduced by IDC at  their Virtualization Forum in  February 2007. In October 2007 Gartner included Virtualization 2.0 in their […]

I saw the following article on the Computerworld blog site for storage entitled, “Vendor claims about storage virtualization flawed”. This was an interview with Dr. Kevin McIsaac, of Intelligent Business Research Services Pty in Australia. It was a brilliant article and one that I could not agree with more.
McIsaac points out that “The idea of […]

This Monday, Hitachi announced the availability of Dynamic Provisioning also known as thin provisioning as a service for heterogeneous storage systems that are attached to the USP V and USPVM.  This means that enterprises can now deploy thin provisioning to any system that attaches to the USP V platform. No need to wait for EMC […]