Techno Musings

I will not comment or field questions on who will win the bidding war, but instead I’ll  use this article and 3PAR’s ASIC technology to prove a point.

According to NetApp’s CEO it is. Well that is at least what he is cited as saying within NetApp’s most recent earnings conference call. (Here is an article at the Register, and here are the Google search results for this topic.) The rationale that NetApp’s CEO uses is that with the [...]

I was watching a TV show commercial-free on my AppleTV and an interesting thought occurred to me.  You see at the beginning I failed to understand the title of the episode, but about 75% of the way through I finally understood the title.  This also led me to an epiphany: the best way to name [...]

Does HDP Make gas, or Just Removes Gas?
When I was a kid, my dad was nursing this old Dodge Dart with a 318 cubic inch V8 engine that he drove around and was also used as the family car. This is back in the days when huge catalogs were sent to your house instead of [...]

A huge portion of Hitachi’s approach to storage is all about ensuring data safety.  At the core of our storage culture we very much recognize that you as our customers are entrusting us, Hitachi, to be the careful custodians of one of your most valuable asset: your data.  Data and its sister Information (note information [...]

I was asked a great question about cloud, file system access, clustered file systems, etc.  This is my response to that question/comment on one of my last posts.  Note that there are two parts here.  The first is about what I would call the content cloud and the second will be on the block storage [...]

My flippant title is a bit intentional after all when tiering your data many people dock their data someplace to save it for a rainy day.  Sometimes that is indeed the case and perhaps files are placed in a long term tier for safe keeping. Typically we call this an active archive so that when [...]

As an occasional contributor to Michael’s blog, my focus will be on the various and well-known space reclamation techniques of de-duplication and single instancing. By posting, I aim to share my knowledge on these techniques and also have a conversation with other professionals (users and vendors alike) who might have similar or differing opinions.

In doing some browsing recently I ran across Ken Ow-Wing’s blog I ran across this post. He to observes that the V-Max while architected differently is indeed largely a feature oriented copy of the USP-V. I know that EMC hates this point, but hey truth is truth. One of Ken’s extremely interesting [...]

I recently ran across this post on Storagezilla.  Well I have to say after having looked at their approach to file tiering I have to say nice try.  As I’ve talked about in the past I was there when an external Acopia (now a product of F5) reference customer basically stated they would throw out [...]