Barriers to ‘cloud’ based computing — Security
You want my data to go where? How? I wrote last time about my concern with bandwidth costs as a barrier to adoption of this ‘cloud’ based computing concept so many vendors are pushing these days,...
View ArticleData Storage Virtualization Technology: A Great Tool, But No Panacea
I love technology. There is nothing better than waking to the news of the next cool tool, gadget, or blinky thing. However, I have recently become a bit cynical of recent releases in the storage world....
View ArticleReview: Big Benefits to Using EMC VPLEX Local
EMC’s VPLEX is a very powerful tool whether it’s deployed in a Local, Metro, or Geo configuration. What everyone always seems to talk about is the benefits of the VPLEX Metro configuration to the data...
View ArticleAtTask Project Management App Helps Clear The Way
I recently was having a conversation with my manager around my workload, projects and other activities with my team. During the conversation, he asked me to walk him through my activities from the...
View ArticleReview: Silver Peak Delivers Quick and Simple WAN Optimization for the Cloud
In our cloud, it seems like there are two things I can never have too much of … that being compute power and bandwidth. As soon as I stand up a chassis with blades in it, a workload occupies that...
View ArticleEMC VNX2 Review: New Hardware and a Big Change to Software for Next...
This review will highlight some of the new changes and features of the next generation VNX. Overview The new VNX series—referred to as the VNX2, VNX MCx, and the next generation VNX—comes with a major...
View ArticleRecoverPoint 4.0 Review: Huge Improvements On An Already Great Product
I’m sure that most people reading this already know at least a little bit of how RecoverPoint works—and probably even know about some of the new features in 4.0. I’ll do a short review on how it works,...
View ArticleVNXe 3200: The Future of the VNX?
I’ve been hearing from a lot of people that the VNX will eventually be similar to the VNXe. I didn’t believe EMC would do that until they came out with the VNXe 3200, but now it is looking like it is a...
View ArticleInfoSight Review: How Nimble Storage Is Turning The OEM Support Model On Its...
All storage OEMs have some kind of “call home” feature. Upon a hardware or software failure, there is usually an alert sent simultaneously to the OEM and the customer. A support ticket is logged and...
View ArticleCPU Cost Comparison: Bigger Spend, Better Output?
In a previous blog post, “Spending Money To Make Money: An IT Strategy That Really Works?” I compared the cost of running 6-core, 8-core, and 12-core CPUs across the x86 enterprise, comparing costs...
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