Posts Tagged ‘storage’
Always On: Highly Available Data Part 3: How Can You Recover Servers in the Cloud?
To recap…
How long can your business survive without your data? How long can your business survive if your people can’t access your business via the internet? Read More »
Thin on Thin Provisioning – Good Idea or Recipe for Disaster?
I was part of a panel at a recent GreenPages event and a question was asked by the audience regarding best practices for thin provisioning in a virtual environment. More specifically, the question was, what is the best practice regarding thin on thin storage provisioning? Read More »
Network Utilization, KPIs and the Truth
Recently, I came across a question posed on our website asking how to effectively measure network utilization. On a high-level that answer seems easy, but in reality there is more to it. One should certainly measure bandwidth, and for the sake of this conversation we are talking WAN bandwidth, from both inbound and outbound perspectives. While this snapshot could help from an immediate remediation perspective, it is only a snapshot. If you didn’t run the command at the exact correct moment you might have missed something. Actually, we probably already did. Read More »
Earthquakes? Vacations? Always On: Highly Available Data
How long can your business survive without your data? What data, you ask? We’ll get back to that in a minute.
How long can your business survive if your people can’t access the internet? How long can you go without cable or satellite TV at home, especially in football season or <insert your sport here>?
How long can you go without a mobile phone signal, where you can’t text, call or browse with your BB/Android/iPhone? Read More »
How to Get a Grip on Storage Growth (and Reduce Costs)
Too much data! According to a couple of recent surveys administered by IBM and other research organizations, up to 80% of data stored on hard drives is “unstructured.” Simply put; this means messy, unorganized, redundant and duplicated files. But you still have to back it up – over and over and over again. Read More »
Intro to My Journey to the Cloud Blog
Here is the first of many postings on the gripping topic of…storage. Yes, there are a few of us out there talking about one array vs. another, one new technology vs. another, puncturing marketing hype, blah, blah, blah.
I hope to stand out from some of the other, by virtue of the fact that I really worked as a storage and backup administrator for years, trying to figure out how expert and informed storage design and administration could help fulfill business needs and requirements. Read More »
