Storage Tiering vs ILM
Over at StorageNerve, and on Twitter, Devang Panchigar has been asking Is Storage Tiering ILM or a subset of ILM,…
Category: General thoughts
Can you trust Azure?
So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…
Lessons I’ve recently learned…
When I was at University, a philosophy lecturer remarked rather sagely that University is the last place people can go…
Virtualisation as an exercise in MTBF
When IT people discuss Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), the most common focus is on disk drives. We all know…
Please, No!
So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…
Dedupe: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge?
If you think you can’t go a day without hearing something about dedupe, you’re probably right. Whether it’s every vendor…
Enhancing RFEs
Over at Grumpy Storage, there’s currently a fantastic piece about the sorry state of how Requests for Enhancement are handled…
The scandalous truth about Clouds
Your cloud based data may be hanging by a thread and you wouldn’t even know. Introduction The recent Sidekick debacle…
Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure?
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. J.K. Rowling, “Harry…
Uptime is an inappropriate metric
I’m going to start with a statement that may make some people angry. Some might suggest that I’m just goading…