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snow birds - Click To Read Article
snow birds

Trains going green - Click To Read Article
Trains going green

wide wide world of archiving - life beyond compliance - Click To Read Article
wide wide world of archiving - life beyond compliance

Spring SNW 2008 - Click To Read Article
Spring SNW 2008

IBM Mainframe part deux - Click To Read Article
The IBM mainframe declared dead for decades still lives on

More mainframe moves - Click To Read Article
More mainframe moves

Moving at speed of light - Click To Read Article
Moving at speed of light

Many different implementations of RAID - Click To Read Article
Many different implementations of RAID

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the greenest of them all? - Click To Read Article
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the greenest of them all?

Logo-ology - Click To Read Article
Logo-ology

Just when you thought it safe to go into storage IO network waters - Click To Read Article
Just when you thought it safe to go into storage IO network waters

Charge back for storage - Click To Read Article
Charge back for storage

Geek gadget - Click To Read Article
Geek gadget

Beware of april 1st announcements - Click To Read Article
Beware of april 1st announcements

Do disk based VTLs draw less power than tape? - Click To Read Article
Do disk based VTLs draw less power than tape?

The data storage prayer - Click To Read Article
On a lighter note. For those who follow or are involved with data storage religiously with a passion, then this is for you. As for others who do not get or understand what this is about, just ask those who are devout data storage followers. Now I lay my data to sleep I pray the lord my backups to keep If a disk should die before I wake I hope like heck RAID works and my resume is up to date Nuff said, now get back to work or what ever it was you were doing before reading this and best wishes! Cheers gs

The Many Faces of Solid State Devices/Disks (SSD) - Click To Read Article
A popular topic for the past few years has been SSD. Solid State Disks/Devices (SSD) or memory based storage mediums have been around for decades, they continue to evolve using different types of memory ranging from volatile dynamic random access (DRAM) memory to persistent or non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) and various derivatives of NAND FLASH among other users. Likewise, the capacity cost points, performance, reliability, packaging, interfaces and power consumption all continue to improve.

Was today the proverbal day that he!! froze over? - Click To Read Article
Now for those of you who cover or track or cheerlead or dread EMC, you probably know there position on benchmarks, or at least of some of their bloggers and in particular, SPC and if not, read here for some perspective. My position has always been the best benchmark is your actual application in a real and applicable workload scenario, however also realizing that not everybody can simulate or test their applications, there is the need for points of reference comparison benchmarks such as SPC, Microsoft ESRP, TPC, SPEC among others.

Politics and Storage - Click To Read Article
One of the disadvantages of travel, particularly air travel today is time spent waiting, however, instead of worrying about lost time waiting, time waiting can also be time to think, ponder, watch CNN, FOX, CNBC, BBC, Sky, or what ever your preference, think and ponder some more.

More Data Footprint Reduction (DFR) Material - Click To Read Article
Data Footprint Reduction (DFR) is a collection of tools, technologies and best practices for addressing growing data storage management and cost impacts. DFR encompasses many different tools, techniques and technologies across various applications ranging from active or primary storage to secondary and inactive along with backup and archive.

Buzzword Bingo and Acronym Update V2.011 - Click To Read Article
R U (e.g. Are you) JASSD about JACD or do you have a case of JAID and JACBUS? Will RAID RAIN on your cloud parade? For those who like to keep up on buzzwords (for buzzword bingo) and acronyms, perhaps even FTW (e.g. For the Win), here are some old and new, fun and real ones to ponder.

Airport Parking, Tiered Storage and Latency - Click To Read Article
Ok, so what do airport parking, tiered storage and latency have in common? Based on some recent travel experience I will assert that there is quite a bit in common, or at a minimum an analogy. What got me thinking about this was recently I could not get a parking spot at the airport primary parking ramp adjacent to the terminal (either a reasonable walk or short tram ride) which offers quick access to the departure gate.

Director Dinner Discussions of the SAN kind - Click To Read Article
Im sure the switching folks from the various camps all have their different views, and if you follow marketing fundamentals, as a vendor you want to position yourself as something new and different to own a market or category. Hence when the discuss turned to why these new platforms were or were not directors and how they were something more, it reminded me of where we were in the industry about seven years ago when the director vs. switch debates raged. So with that in mind, when I was asked as to what I thought a director was vs. a switch, my answer is this:

Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDD) - Click To Read Article
Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDD) provide a balance of increased performance with integrated flash solid state device (SSD) and large capacity 500GB hard disk drive (HDD) in a cost effective solution.

Using Removable Hard Disk Drives (RHDDs) - Click To Read Article
Removable hard disk drives (RHDD) are a form of removable media which includes magnetic tape that address many common use cases. Usage scenarios include enabling bulk data portability for larger environments or for D2D backup where the media needs to be physically moved offsite for small and mid sized environments.





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