by dave on April 13, 2009
So, it’s 1201am and…well, now you know what we’re talking about, hinting about, laughing about, and honestly…what we’ve been waiting for. The Symmetrix V-Max is here and it’s ready to drop the hammer on what you know about storage.
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by dave on December 12, 2008
Continuing the thread of explaining the roles of storage fabrics that we’ve come to know and love (FCoE, Infiniband, 10GbE iSCSI, etc.), @rjhintz asked the following question:
What’s the expected technical life of a storage fabric install today before it’s upgraded to a new generation or forklifted out?
There are a few significant events that precipitate storage fabric changes: the acquisition of technology that requires the change and CapEx/OpEx spend/reduction/allocations. That isn’t to say that incentivized fabric overhaul offerings don’t make any impact, but rather they’re the exception versus the rule. Additionally, there are other factors that feed into infrastructure overhauls but are beyond the scope of this general discussion. Let’s look at each of these metrics more closely.
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by dave on October 22, 2008
n Parts 1-4 of the Future Storage Systems articles, we focused on the SAN-facing technologies that would enable scalable propcessing growth, purpose-built technologies for deduplication and encryption, as well as the fabric that would tie nodes together. However, in each of these articles, I never got into WHERE that information would eventually be stored. Today, I’m hoping to remedy that problem. I’ll be referencing the diagram below as usual.
FSS Backend Disk Layout Options
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