Saturday | 10 January, 2009

Stories by: Jerome Wendt

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    Choosing the right backup interface 19/05/2008 09:31:29

    It is no secret that disk is becoming the preferred media to use as a backup target and disk-based backup appliances are popping up all over. But as companies ready their environment for disk, a fundamental decision they need to make is selecting an appliance that presents the appropriate interface to their backup software.
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    Fibre Channel's savior may have its own problems 15/04/2008 11:55:41

    Last week, while attending the Spring Storage Networking World in Orlando the big news was, believe it or not, storage networking. In this case, multiple vendors are touting Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as storage networking's future.
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    Tape's not dead. It doesn't even smell bad 01/04/2008 10:57:34

    The number of times that someone has declared tape "dead" probably numbers in the thousands. So it should come as no surprise that when I inquired of one tape vendor how much tape they sell annually the vendor's response was, "We sell a *&^% load of it".
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    Users are better off with an independent Iomega 14/03/2008 10:19:13

    I am not sure who the bigger winner is after this week's announcement that Iomega rejected EMC's takeover bid: Iomega or customers. Based on EMC's past attempts to enter the consumer storage market space, one would think that consumers are better off because Iomega remained independent.
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    InfiniBand answers consolidation questions 07/03/2008 09:00:49

    A multiple choice question that companies have to answer on almost daily basis as they consolidate and virtualize their evolving data center infrastructure is:
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    Can Microsoft use AltaVista without buying Yahoo? 22/02/2008 10:25:31

    Earlier this month, Microsoft announced its intentions to acquire Yahoo. Although Yahoo has since announced it plans to fight Microsoft's takeover and court other suitors, most notably Google, there is an element of shared search technology that neither Microsoft nor Yahoo can easily dismiss because of Microsoft's earlier 2008 announcement to acquire FAST Search and Transfer.
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    Will Dell bite the hand that feeds it? 28/11/2007 12:43:06

    Dell's acquisition of EqualLogic spawned some initial speculation about whether Dell was going to try to cut EMC out of its product portfolio. Though that is possible, Dell knows better than to bite the hand that feeds it.
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    VMware's popularity belies its complexity 24/08/2007 08:09:37

    Suddenly all things virtual are good. After VMware's IPO last week, the whole world has discovered virtualization's value proposition.
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    Cheap business continuity is an option 02/08/2007 14:32:41

    Companies no longer define business continuity in terms of hours or days but as point-in-time backups and instant recoveries. The question is how to deliver that in-house without breaking the bank.
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    SAN, NAS, ILM, SAS -- your boss doesn't care 06/07/2007 09:16:50

    Storage is awash in TLAs (three-letter acronyms). LUN, SAN, NAS, ILM, SWD, SAS, HBA, DAS, CAS and FAN are all acronyms that regularly appear in storage-related literature, publications and columns. But to many IT managers, they provide no meaningful information, and for storage technicians who use them too frequently without context, they may alienate rather than connect them with their manager.
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    And tape walked quietly from the spotlight 30/05/2007 09:29:50

    Someone asked me just a few weeks ago, "Do you think this time disk will replace tape as the primary target for backup?" My response? Absolutely.
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