Storage Nation

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

A new survey by Intercall shows that 48 percent of americans who use technology in their everyday jobs say that they are now required to do more work with fewer resources due to the current economic climate.

Paula Sequeira, posted This comment on my post on New Considerations for Tiered Storage .

Hitachi Data Systems has been very successful selling the benefits of Storage Virtualization and Dynamic Provisioning.

Tiered storage is one of those terms which people use freely and assume that everyone understands. The basic concept is that you can reduce the cost of storage by assigning your data to different cost tiers of storage depending on the requirements of the data. However, there are different technologies to address tiered storage which can make a great deal of difference in the value or benefits that can be derived.

Greg Schulz posted a very comprehensive set of predictions on his StorageIO blog. He not only covers what he expects to see in 2010 and 2011, but also trends that will be gaining ground in 2010 and trends that will not. There is a lot to agree with and a lot to disagree with, but overall it is well worth a read. As the title of the post indicates, many of the trends and predictions will be more of the same from 2009.

Tiered Storage is one of the best ways to reduce storage costs if it can be done dynamically.

Kevin Eggelston, the Senior VP and General Manager of the Asia Pacific Region for HDS, is one of the keynote speakers for the series of User Conferences that are underway in this region.

ComputerWorld published an interesting article entitled: The Lost NASA Tapes: Restoring Lunar Images after 40 years in the vault. The title of the article refers to the effort to recover images from film that was taken by the 5 Lunar Orbiters, which were flown in 1966 and 1967 to survey the moon’s surface for the Apollo 11 moon landing which occurred on July 20, 1969. The film had been stored in a vault at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California until 2006

    USP V users are finding it easy to free up 30% to 40 % of existing storage capacity with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning.