The Truth About Storage, Part Five
— Storage Horizons Blog — Another recent myth, the third in the Five myths and Half-truths series, is that RAID is dead or that RAID-6 is the answer to everything. Where did doing the math go? What...
View ArticleCloud Computing and Datacenter Automation in an Era of Efficiencies
— Storage Horizons Blog — What’s a cloud? To me, it is an automated datacenter that can provide compute, application, and backup services. It can be a private cloud for a company, or it can be public...
View Article50 Shades Of Storage
— Storage Horizons Blog — HDD, Hybrid HDD/SSD, Or All SSD Storage: So Many “Shades Of Grey” That It Is No Wonder People Are Confused! There is a significant amount of hype out there around all SSD...
View Article50 Shades of Storage, Part 2
— Storage Horizons Blog — As I began to go down the path to describe the “50 Shades of Storage” in my last blog, I noticed a blog from David Black (see...
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How to Minimize Data Storage Costs and Avoid Expensive Mistakes
There are titanic shifts occurring in data storage requirements today, often resulting in buyers making expensive storage purchasing mistakes. The most significant disruption to traditional storage...
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50 Shades of Storage, Part 3
— Storage Horizons Blog — When it comes to storage systems, the cost to build the product and the subsequent acquisition cost are only two aspects of the overall cost of owning and operating the...
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Fifty Shades of Storage, Part 4
— Storage Horizons Blog — What are the specific aspects that an array can and should have, to be efficient and TCO friendly? How does ISE meet and exceed these aspects by making the “whole greater than...
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Fifty Shades of Storage, Part 5
— Storage Horizons Blog — Hybrid and SSD Arrays What are they good for and what are they not? What are enterprise hybrids? What are just SANs in a can for SMB doing HSM/ILM?! What about All SSD arrays?...
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Fifty Shades of Storage, Part 6
— Storage Horizons Blog — Tiering and Hybrid Arrays: What’s the truth about these? Basic differences in performance between DRAM, SSD, HDD, and Nearline HDD (in X-IO terms) mean vastly different...
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Fifty Shades of Storage, Part 7
— Storage Horizons Blog — What kind of data access makes up an application, and why is this important when thinking about tiering (for performance) vs. basic HSM? Application Data Attributes One of the...
View ArticleThe Truth About Storage, Part One
— Storage Horizons Blog — This blog is the first in a two-part series. The second part will uncover the truths, half-truths and myths about storage. I’ve been in the storage industry for more than 32...
View ArticleThe Truth About Storage, Part Two
— Storage Horizons Blog — This blog is the second in a two-part series. First, let’s start with what storage is about. The fundamentals of storage are about: Performance to the application in the way...
View ArticleThe Truth About Storage, Part Three
— Storage Horizons Blog — Five myths and Half-truths are my second installment that I’ll continue on the Storage Horizons blog in increasing depth, because I’m convinced that efficiency is key to Cloud...
View ArticleThe Truth About Storage, Part Four
— Storage Horizons Blog — Another myth, the second in the Five myths and Half-truths series, is that the ‘storage shelf’ or ‘drive tray’, or new ‘massively dense drive packages’ and servers with many...
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