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Years ago when I first got involved in storage, I couldn't figure out why storage management was so difficult. In fact, I initially had a hard time even keeping myself busy in my job as a storage administrator.
This past summer a rather humorous video debate broke out on the StorageRap and RupturedMonkey.com blog sites. The debate centered on the 42 MB page size of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Dynamic Provisioning feature (HDS's implementation of thin...
The recent launches of Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Servers 2008 R2 have been greeted with a lot of fanfare. But what can sometimes get lost in the mix is that as organizations look to adopt the latest versions of these operating systems there is a...
The costs for IT departments of power and cooling as well as server management can no longer be overlooked, assumed static or just written off as a necessary evil of doing business. Recently published statistics reveal that the three (3) year...
Anyone who has followed my blogs knows that solid state drives (SSDs) have been at the top of my mind ever since this fall's SNW. However conversations that I have had with storage providers since SNW regarding the current and planned deployments of...
Anyone wonder why storage virtualization is still growing relatively slowly while server virtualization platforms like VMware have gone on a tear? If so, a look at the licensing strategies that these two respective virtualization technologies have...
