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PMR Type 2

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:48:03 +0000

I hadn’t heard of this before a few days ago, when I was fact checking some of the info on Fujifilm’s video interview around its breakthrough with IBM in tape capacity. I had thought that the IBM-Fujifilm tape capacity demonstration showed the application of PMR head technology to a new tape coating that used BaFe particles to achieve the great density improvement.

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Getting Ready to Re-Launch IT Sense.org

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:26:58 +0000

I have been heads down building out a couple of websites. In addition to adding a lot of new content to C4Project.org (fresh interviews with Fujifilm, CA, and Xiotech), I am re-doing IT-Sense.org and will shortly tackle my main homepage and the Data Management Institute site. The objective is to freshen content and update code that has proven hacker-porous. Stand

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On the Air at 2PM EST

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:58:25 +0000

Tech Target is taking a video they shot of my last DR Planning seminar and is streaming it on the Internet right now. Here are the details I received after pinging the site.

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Data Center Transformation Part 3: Storage Transformation

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:56:51 +0000

This is the third part in my series on data center transformations. My last post was on server transformation and the impact of virtual servers on the data center. In this post I will address the impact of storage transformation on the data center. Data is at the core of the Data center Data is at the core of the data center, and any effort to transform the data center must involve the movement, provisioning, access, and protection of data which is provided by storage systems

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Data Center Transformation Part 2 – Server Transformation

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:48:16 +0000

This is the second post in my series on data center transformation. In my first post , I offered up several warning signs that indicate why it is time to take action and transform your data center to be agile, sustainable, and business-oriented.

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Data Center Transformation Part 2 – Server Transformation

To BIN or not to BIN, that is the question

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:15:01 +0000

Hamlet was depressed when he posed the question, “to be to not to be”. There was no questions in Barry Burk’s mind when StorageNerve asked Michael Hay “ Where is the Hitachi BINfile” and Michael answered “Hitachi doesn’t have the concept of a ‘BINfile’.” Barry’s immediate response was that “EVERY intelligent storage array has the equivalent of a Binfile”. Barry also makes the correction that the correct name is .BIN file.

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Data Center Transformation Part 1

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:17:20 +0000

Andy Kyte from Gartner was been sounding the alarm for data center modernization for a number of years. He warns that the data center is headed for a train wreck

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What Storage Virtualization can not sacrifice

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:04:54 +0000

There is an increasing interest in storage virtualization as seen an the increasing number of articles and blog posts on storage virtualization. In the last few days Rick Vanover posted a very balanced overview of storage virtualization for Datamation where he reviewed some of the many options. Carol Sliwa posted a Storage Pro Guide to block-based storage virtualization for SearchStorage which cited some use cases. One of the use cases was the City of Coquitlan (Canada) who is a 2010 Computerworld Honors Laureate award winners in IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program and a customer of Hitachi.

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What Storage Virtualization can not sacrifice

Thought For Friday

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:07:42 +0000

Toxoplasmosis leads to bad behavior. In fact, it makes us behave in a manner that is contrary to our own self preservation instinct. According to the research I have been doing after reading about it in The Economist a few weeks ago, I am wondering if it is central to the continued success of vendors

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Fast, faster and fastest

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:29:32 +0000

I was hanging out in San Francisco airport yesterday on a flight delay and went into one of the magazine stores to check out the latest monthlies. A bunch of them had the same full page ad from Oracle comparing a Sun server hosted Oracle DB with apps to an anonymous IBM “server” hosted Oracle DB with apps

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Fast, faster and fastest