Storage Nation

Okay, I knuckled under to pressure.  First, Leigh Grace tried to sell me on Twittering (which led me to use it as a way to notify everyone about new posts here), then I got a call from Rose Ross over in the UK who relayed to me that folks were sending me messages — tweets

ESJ.com is running another of our C-4 Project video segments, this time with CEO and Chairman of FalconStor, ReiJane Huai.  Check it out. Mr. Huai reflected on his role in bringing tape backup to the distributed world, then offered commentary on several topics of interest including the formation of mini-me mainframes (“if you are going to

I’ve been pondering Cisco and their Unified Computing System (UCS) and decided to finally blog on it. I participated in a InfoSmack podcast that included a brief discussion on UCS and recently talked to Cisco’s Jesse Freund – who manages analysts relations for the Cisco UCS.

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…

Gluster is a startup that is providing an open source file system that is EASY to use and manage, has fast and versatile performance, is good for people who have 2 TB of storage or 20 PB or more of storage (and everything in between), provides scale up and scale out and will also work with existing files systems like ext3, ext4 and ZFS (and I also suggest they support Btrfs soon).

The question is very simple: are you going to be dragged by the business people in your organization to introduce SaaS solutions into your IT management environment, or are you going to lead your organization to it?

I’m a Linux technician by heart but I have now worked as a storage administrator for a couple of years. This blog is where I will post some snapshots of what I do at work. Most likely I won’t post often. And since I feel I’m a rookie in this profession, I won’t post any smart conclusions or ideas or tips.

Today I will be connecting our newly bought EMC CLARiiON CX4-480, fully equipped with 1TB SATA disks. We installed the other one this week on our secondary site. They will host our primary online media for our media management and production system and replica of the same data on our secondary site