Storage Nation

I saw a tweet this morning from Stephen Foskett (@sfoskett): ”Looks like 3PAR, BlueArc, Compellent, Dell, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp, and Pillar all claim to offer thin provisioning of some sort” . My answer on twitter was: ”it’s time to take a better look to implementations!” All vendors are working to offer new features on their storages and this is a never ending race that briRead More…

I was recently asked to look into Cloud Storage options for our organization and if it might fit in the future for some archives etc.   I checked out what was being offered by all the big names, AmazonS3, Google, I was eventualy led to  ParaScale and Zetta as what seemed to offer the best capabilites to an enterprise user.   The “storage” costs were as hyped, very cheap.  They run $0.25/GB and lower.  Compared to several dollars per Gig we pay Read More…

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.

I was talking to a co-worker about vendor lock-in and what is the easiest way to ditch one vendor in favor of another.

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.

Who better than a bunch of storage monkeys to determine which vendors lead the market in Data DeDuplication, iSCSI storage and Tape Libraries?  And what is better than a free cup of coffee to entice you to share your wisdom?   This month, InfoStor Magazine will feature survey results from storage professionals who participate in the latest IT Brand Leader survey from IRead More..

Do storage managers have a “pack rat” mentality? Yes – if you ask the folks over at Symantec, according to their recent “Symantec Top 9 storage trends for 2010″ published recently. Well, I beg to differ

One of the things I’ve learned, having been in more traditional “Enterprise” environments and “Internet” companies is that the latter have much larger scale issues, with respect to storage, by an order of magnitude or two, than the former.   Fortunately, there’s also a difference in the nature of the data, such that the most voluminous (and, arguably, most valuable) data, web access logs, are highly compressible (5-10x) with the right algorithm. Compression is important atRead More…

Want to know the storage news from Australia and New Zealand over the last week? Here goes. First up:we have a bit of a scoop that details the specs of four Open Storage devices that Sun will release next year. Read about ‘em here.