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The Morning After
Compellent’s big news yesterday generated a lot of traffic and I’m just catching up having otherwise been engaged in pre-sales meetings. Overall, I think the Compellent marketing crew did a great job and is to be commended for delivering the message globally and in a consistent manner. And the message seems to have been well…
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The Thick and the Thin of Provisioning
Last week there was an interesting exchange between two storage industry analysts on the topic of thinly provisioned storage. The discussion revolved around the value of thin provisioning in the most common sense – lowering cost of storage by avoiding the purchase of tomorrow’s storage at today’s prices. I’m not going to rehash that discussion…
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One Step Provisioning
When I managed an enterprise storage team one of the pain points I had to deal with was my organization’s desire (for many reason) for separation of duties. Simply put my storage team and contractors weren’t given access to operating systems to complete storage provisioning tasks – they basically stopped at the HBA. Some of…
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All The Benefits of Short Stroking Without The Calories
There were some interesting tweets that I mostly stayed away from today regarding the benefits of Compellent’s Fast Track performance enhancement feature. I’ll let that particular dog be and await a clarification from the marketing folks at Compellent. However, I do want to take the opportunity to talk about Fast Track and explain what it…
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The Games We Play – How Console Games Are Like Integrated Stacks
In response to Chuck Hollis and his views on integrated versus differentiated stack infrastructure, I was most interested in his example case of building your own PC to make the point that integrated stacks will win out. I’m not going to prognosticate – that’s for the industry giants like Chuck, Chris Mellor and others to…
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SSD at Home
This past weekend I installed a new Intel X25-M 80GB solid state drive into my home PC (which I use for work and play). I had no end of fun clearing out my 1TB disk formatted as my C: drive (and “system reserve” partition) by moving my documents and certain key applications to another partition…
John Dias