Storage Nation

In this section we will discuss the need for proper labeling of cables, servers, and storage hardware. I have been in many data-centers over time, and have two extremes of this process. From no labeling to everything being labeled, what I will try to assist you with in this section is the ability to find a happy medium between the two.  Cable Labeling – The importance here is to ensure that each end of the cable is labeled, as well as any junction box interconnects that may exiRead More..

You will all have already seen IBM’s announcement last week on it’s Long Term File System (LTFS).

Which archiving solution should you implement? Compliance based archiving or Information Life Cycle Management?  Listen to Sanity’s podcast created by Systems Engineer Chris Harrold to learn more…

I am here to declare that I am first to coin the term “JBOGs” – Just a Bunch Of Gigabytes for Cloud-based Storage. This is the same vain as “JBOD” – Just a Bunch of Disks which is a known term to us storage folk.

The woes of a storage monkey trying to decide which vendor technology solution is the most appropriate seem to go on for ever.

As an HDS customer I have had enough of the customer facing HDS Support Portal.

I just came across (yet another) good article by Kevin Beaver called Tests for securing the internal windows network .

Good Day….

If you haven’t yet tuned into the weekly podcast known as Infosmack on community site Storage Monkeys, you’re missing out. Every Monday, hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley bring on guests to dish about the latest storage industry news–and they do so in a very entertaining and informative way.

We tried a “Top Ten Storage Vendor Blogs” back in July with some questionable results based on how we set up security for the poll. When we tweaked the security for the Top Storage Blogs (Non-Vendor) the feedback was much more positive. So… we are giving this another try BUT…