Storage Nation » SUN http://storagenation.com Pulling back the covers on the storage industry. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 On the Air at 2PM EST http://storagenation.com/on-the-air-at-2pm-est/ http://storagenation.com/on-the-air-at-2pm-est/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:58:25 +0000 admin http://storagenation.com/on-the-air-at-2pm-est/ 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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]]> http://storagenation.com/on-the-air-at-2pm-est/feed/ 0 Oh if ONLY there was a way to http://storagenation.com/oh-if-only-there-was-a-way-to/ http://storagenation.com/oh-if-only-there-was-a-way-to/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:15:12 +0000 admin http://storagenation.com/oh-if-only-there-was-a-way-to/ The lament of many cloud compute providers as we engage with them…   “I wish someone would offer a storage subsystem:” Was transactional (which VMware needs today to host VMDK storage) – but scaled, so I could manage at scale with less: scaled out linearly to large clusters (lets say 16 nodes – for a total of 128 intel cores for dealing with the IO load), using commodity x86 servers, but commodity components built for a service provider. where any resource in that cluster – brains, ports, caches could all service any IO – meaning it’s one big pool.  A datastore literally is everywhere, but also dependent on no one element. that could scale up to huge capacity (let’s say petabytes) without increasing my FTE cost because it’s designed for management at scale (hey, just like Cisco UCS!) where everything could be wide-striped across the entire backend of the array – so it acts as one big aggregate pool of ports, IO, brains, IOps and GBs

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]]> http://storagenation.com/fast-faster-and-fastest/feed/ 0 Xiotech a Laggard? Hmm. http://storagenation.com/xiotech-a-laggard-hmm/ http://storagenation.com/xiotech-a-laggard-hmm/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:09:04 +0000 admin http://storagenation.com/xiotech-a-laggard-hmm/ Hopefully, some of the Xiotech folks have their ears on.  In response to my previous post questioning the marketecture around Flash SSD, one reader (Pq65) said that my commentary underscored Xiotech’s limitations in the sense that they (1) are closely tied to Seagate, which doesn’t have a Flash story yet, and (2) were not jumping on

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]]> http://storagenation.com/my-friday-rant-q1-idc-results/feed/ 0 Enterprise Computing: VPLEX – A Dreary Storage Cluster? http://storagenation.com/enterprise-computing-vplex-%e2%80%93-a-dreary-storage-cluster/ http://storagenation.com/enterprise-computing-vplex-%e2%80%93-a-dreary-storage-cluster/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 15:52:47 +0000 admin http://storagenation.com/enterprise-computing-vplex-%e2%80%93-a-dreary-storage-cluster/ Those of you with relatively good memories will remember last year’s announcement from Hitachi/HDS, which at the time promised more than it delivered.  In fact, the anagram posed by Claus Mikkelsen on his blog and used as part of the press release was “REGRADES OUR CLASSY TREATS” and should have translated to “STORAGE ARRAYS CLUSTERED”  my tongue-in-cheek alternative was “A DREARY STORAGE CLUSTER” (who could have imagined such a serendipidous alternative).  With EMC’s new release of VPLEX, it’s deja-vu all over again…. With the usual EMC fanfare, VPLEX has been heralded as “ a new storage platform “.

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]]> http://storagenation.com/enterprise-computing-vplex-%e2%80%93-a-dreary-storage-cluster/feed/ 0 No Time for BS http://storagenation.com/no-time-for-bs/ http://storagenation.com/no-time-for-bs/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 20:09:10 +0000 admin http://storagenation.com/no-time-for-bs/ I have been buried getting ready for several upcoming events that will see me in Las Vegas, then Minneapolis, then New York, then Chicago, then…  Preparation involves developing a bunch of presentations, white papers, book chapters, etc.  Very busy…therefore slow to post.  That said, when I received this link today in email, I was so steamed, I

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