Nothing communicates more clearly than a pile of Roman numerals. In a previous post I mentioned IBM’s Storage XIV. Perhaps it was hyperbolic to say it’s not much of a product and to rate its SAN function as lackluster. It wasn’t just because “we have the technology” to use a green ..
I hadn’t thought about our unified platform – NAS, SAN, iSCSI all on one storage pool – in a while. After all, everyone says they “have that.”Bullshit.Let’s just look at this honestly for a minute (if we can stand it): Before anyone blows their stack, I don’t give credit for ..
While chatting with channel partners in a hotel lobby in Kansas City recently, some guy walked past us, kicked over one of those yellow caution signs marking a wet area, and sent it scooting 6 feet across the marble floor. The guy simply looks back and says “Whoa, who put that there?” Of ..
A few readers of the Blog wrote comments or sent me emails about noted my reference to Homey D. Clown. Nobody seemed perturbed, a few people loved it, and probably a lot didn’t understand it (hopefully you followed the link). Well, not that they should have been upset about Homey, but it seems ..
Auto-Tiering of data in a storage array, at least in Pillar’s vision, has two axes – 1) application priority; and 2) class of storage. In the Axiom, this is represented by two functions: 1) QoS explained in many other posts; and 2) data migration within the array. Currently we have coupled ..