OutOfThis-Net/Work

Stretched Clusters

Feb

2013

I’ve been having this discussion a lot with customers, and berating storage vendors for pretending that stretching a storage cluster makes everything fabulous! Generally I find this topic easiest to whiteboard, and with some fancy magnets here is the result of my first video blog. The sounds is a bit off, but hopefully you can ...

Functional Capacity

Dec

2012

It’s my job to size storage properly. How do I do that? Well, with a significant amount of faith in the vendors! Clearly we need an understanding of the existing footprint. Not just provisioned storage, but backup routines, actual used storage, database white-space, change-rates, data types and so on. It can actually be fairly complex ...

What next for storage? 2

Dec

2012

Storage vendors have been very inventive over the years, creating some very interesting technologies: unified controllers, wide striping, various snapshot techniques, capacity efficiencies, etc. etc. But where has the key innovations been recently? Is it enough to have fancy features and technology? Is this what customers are even asking for? The primary use case I ...

DR to the Office

Dec

2012

If you don’t mind entertaining me, go into your data centre please. In fact first of all, when you refer to your data centre, in your head does it have inverted comma’s around it in a sarcastic fashion? Is it a “data centre” (roll eyes)? Now head into your “data centre”, how does the cabling ...

OutOfThis-Net/Work

Stretched Clusters

Functional Capacity

What next for storage? 2

DR to the Office

Why do I finally care about Microsoft HyperV?