We have been working with IT clients who deploy private clouds as part of their operations. The reasons include implementing a change in the delivery of IT services, a new infrastructure for dealing with the overwhelming influx of unstructured data, and a...
Read More »Despite obvious evolution of the storage industry, the problems in storing and managing information are the same ones that have been there since the days of Data Processing in the 1960s. The problems have actually grown, with nuances that make them harder...
Read More »I have been told by a storage administrator that if he moved data to the cloud he was no longer responsible for it. He made the wash-my-hands of it sign during that conversation to illustrate it was “not my problem.”...
Read More »Storage systems manage access to information in one of three forms: As blocks of data of a predefined size, as files within a file structure or as objects stored with metadata that describe the information. Block storage systems and file-based network-attached storage systems are...
Read More »EMC and IBM recently launched storage products with the term “elastic” in their names. These announcements were significant for the companies and for the IT community in understanding a direction being taken for storage technology. EMC launched Elastic Cloud Storage...
Read More »Clarification is needed about what lifespan means regarding storage because confusion is created by the way product messaging refers to both in the same context. Lifespans of storage systems refer to many things: wear-out mechanisms for devices, technology obsolescence in...
Read More »There was an interesting comment made by a person in the audience where I was giving a talk. It was about a major technology area that I had worked in early in my career and the comment was that it...
Read More »Conversations at the recent National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference led me to the conclusion that object storage is becoming a common denominator between block and file storage within companies in this vertical market. I noticed a separation in the storage systems used for...
Read More »Looking at advanced features is always a critical step when reviewing storage systems because of the value these features bring. There are a large number of storage system-based features, and variations exist between different vendor implementations. But taking a step...
Read More »During a recent explanation I was giving on the lifespan of enterprise storage systems, I received an interesting question: what happens with systems taken out of service? There is a tendency to give a flip answer to that question, and it...
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