Read a recent article (actually a series of charts and text) on MIT Technical Review called Bases to Bytes which discusses how the costs of having your DNA sequenced is dropping faster than Moore’s law and how storing a person’s DNA … Continue reading →
NetApp had three of their customer innovation winners come up on stage for a panel discussion with Dave Hitz moderating the discussion. All three had interesting deployments of NetApp storage systems: Andrew Henderson from ING DIRECT talked about their need … Continue reading →
The above chart is from our April newsletter on Microsoft Exchange 2010 Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) results for the 1,000 (actually 1001) to 5,000 mailbox category. We have taken the database transfers per second, normalized them for the number of … Continue reading →
Recently I added a new thin laptop to the fleet of Windows 7 laptop and workstations that I have in active use. The other devices run Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit with Bitlocker security encryption enabled. However I ran into a problem getting Bitlocker to work on the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Professional.
At the second day of Dell Storage Forum in Boston, they announced: New FluidFS (Exanet) FS8600 front end NAS gateway for Dell Compellent storage. The new gateway can be scaled from 1 to 4 dual controller configurations and can support … Continue reading →At Dell Storage Forum today in Boston they announced: A new M4110 EqualLogic blade storage system which fits in Dell’s M1000e blade chasis. Each M4110 blade is equivalent to a dual controller P4000 EqulLogic storage system. Up to 4 M4110 … Continue reading →
In case you missed it, NetApp announced their most recent quarterly earnings a few weeks ago which in themselves were not bad. However what some of their competition jumping up and down for joy while others are scratching their heads is the forward-looking guidance given by NetApp.I recently saw a comment somewhere that talked about Green IT being deferred or set aside due to lack of funding because of ongoing global economic turmoil. For those who see Green IT in the context of the green washing efforts that requiring spending to gain some benefits that I can understand. After all, if your goal is to simply go and be or be seen as being green, there is a cost to doing that. Have you noticed how Fibre Channel (FC) and FC over Ethernet (FCoE) switch and adapter vendors and their followers focus around bandwidth vs. response time, latency or other performance activity? For example, 8Gb FC (e.g. 8GFC), or 10Gb as opposed to latency and response time, or IOPS and other activity indicators.I have been getting asked by IT customers, VAR’s and even vendors how much solid state device (SSD) storage is needed or should be installed to address IO performance needs to which my standard answer is it depends.
I also am also being asked if there is rule of thumb (RUT) of how much SSD you should have either in terms of the number of devices or a percentage; IMHO, the answer is it depends. Sure, there are different RUTs floating around based on different environments, applications, workloads however are they applicable to your needs.
Some of you might remember the saying from Smokey the bear, only you can prevent forest fires and for those who do not know about that, click on the image below. The reason I bring this up is that while cloud providers are responsible (see the cloud blame game) is that it is also up [...]Brian got up and talked about SmarterStorage that is coming out of STG. A couple of items of specific interest included: IBM’s new ultra drawer – apparently server side all flash array, unclear if this is a shared storage device … Continue reading →