The Next Storage Management War [caption id="attachment_10593" align="alignleft" width="174"] Storage Management Wars[/caption] Storage management is a mundane topic; one too dry even for most seasoned IT and storage administrators. However, it appears to be getting interesting again. This means that...
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 »There are many events that can trigger the need for a data migration. Some datacenters do migrations on a weekly basis. A technology refresh, server and/or storage consolidation, infrastructure relocation, data classifications are all events that could cause a need...
Read More »The end of the year is a busy time for storage pros as salesman push to meet year-end quotas and IT plans for year-end operations. Year-end operations can involve beginning the processes required to close the books of a company...
Read More »When talking to CIOs, IT directors and managers, I’m sometimes surprised by what they know – and don’t know – about industry developments. During an education session I held recently, the IT people told me they had not heard of...
Read More »During many of my discussions with IT managers and directors who would be classified in the mid-tier enterprise space (over 1,000 employees), it has become clear that few have deployed storage systems using solid state drives (SSD) with internal tiering....
Read More »At SNW there is a chance to see what vendors want to inform the world about – from their product perspective. There are also presentations that are focused on education and general information for users of storage. This presents a...
Read More »One of the things that I always pay attention to is the perception of storage both in the information technology industry and with customers. How critical storage is for successful IT is evident to me but that understanding seems to...
Read More »Compellent's C-Drive event last week drew about 300 storage administrators and IT generalists to downtown Minneapolis one week before EMC World. While that's small show by EMCWorld standards, it was a big event for Compellent customers. I have yet to...
Read More »Yesterday, I heard a story about a CIO of one of the big NYC-based financial services firms explaining to his audience what was delaying further virtualization of the firm's application environment. The reason wasn't related to hardware or software. Read...
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