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This isn't storage related but this is a great article on the farce that is Global Warming.  Take the time to read it and I think you'll agree.
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I have been hearing a lot lately about FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) and I thought I’d share some thoughts/opinions on it. From the looks of it all your big switch and HBA vendors out there are getting behind it and will support it in their devices. If you were at [...]

Headed to Atlanta today to attend some training on the Riverbed Steelhead WDS boxes.  I've implemented them at a few places now and I am very impressed so far.  I've seen SRDF traffic at one customer go from an average of 20 - 30 MB/s up to 150 - 180 MB/s immediately after putting in [...]

I updated [see clean install] to Wordpress 2.5 and am working through updating all the links and blogrolls again.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

I'll be over at SNW in Orlando this week.  If any readers want to get together and chat shoot me an email.  I'll post on anything interesting I hear over there.  Hopefully it won't be another vendor love fest…

Below is the answer to securely erasing data from Flash drives  -

So the imminent arrival of SSD in enterprise storage has got the old grey matter heating up somewhat.  Below are a couple of things that I’ve come across in the last week that will be affected by the arrival of Flash based SSD in enterprise storage.  
This list will no doubt grow……

I have heard from a very credible source (a recent EMC employee) that they are.  It will be built into a future release of Enginuity and rolled out in the DMX.  So what does this mean?  Are they actually validating HDS's claim on where in the network virtualization should reside?  Sounds like it.
So what would [...]

OK.  I am.  What I have left is probably deeply rooted and I doubt I will lose much more but is my lack of hair related to my constant SAN problems over the last year.  Perhaps it just fell out or I pulled it out.  I am still determining the cause.
Some time ago, a poster was complaining [...]

My first external fibre attached storage was in the mid 1990's.  It was a Sun RSM200 (I think) and I used Veritas VxVM 2.4 (or whatever Sun called it then).  I was impressed.  I had all these disks in trays (9 disks per tray, 9.1 GB disks and 5 trays).  That was pretty big storage in those [...]

Setting the scene
Im one of the many who have been known to beat their drums over the way the storage industry has abandoned the small, fast, disk drive and left it to die a slow death.  While on the other hand has killed the fatted calf and lined the streets with palm leaves [...]

Its been pretty quite on the ole blog front and I put it down to the enormous workloads on people.  I think I have done more in the last month than I did during the last few months of 2007.  Unfortunately, that is not by design. 
One of my pet hates is back at it again and [...]

I figured I'd start off the New Year with a kind note about EMC(even if it is a couple weeks into it).  I read an announcement from EMC yesterday that seemed pretty decent.  EMC has announced that they will now be offering Solid State Disks (SSDs) in their DMX line for high IO applications.  Press [...]

I am curious about this thing called Capacity Management.  Sure, a few years ago, a lot of people had jobs related to it and even now, some people are doing it.  But, it has always been a Mainframe thing to me.  There are words that stick in my mind like DASD and MIPS.  Let's think about [...]

Now that I have caught your attention especially with the word naughty as that probably does a good job of describing me….. 
The phrase is mentioned with (mostly) children around Christmas (sorry to all non Christians out there but this is related to a particular event and time in the year) and if you have been good, Santa [...]

Welcome to 2008.  May your year be filled with uptime and data integrity.  Can't wait to hear what the vendors will be coming out with this year and what new things users will be doing with their old stuff to get some extra life out of it.
Have fun!!! 

I have had a relatively average year in my semi beloved profession as if it could go wrong, it did this year (2007). 
Can you believe in such things as double disk failures in one of my USP's parity groups?  Then there is the <grumble grumble> average service from IBM WRT to DS4000 series has made my life very [...]

I received an email the other day with a press release from a company that is offering a pretty slick product/service.  The company is called Nirvanix and they offer storage to web companies via a standards based API (SOAP or REST interfaces).  It all sounds pretty cool to me. 
What are you guys seeing out [...]

Perhaps it is because I am getting older but is there anyone out there that understands archiving?  I was at a presentation at HDS last Friday and I raised archiving as part of something that we were looking at.  HCAP came out of the woodwork but it did nothing to make me feel good about archiving. 
A [...]

I've used and evaluated many many SRM and Storage Management tools over the years and liked a few and hated even more.  After years and years of trying, do any of the vendors have it right?  Can anyone do it all?  What do you guys like?