Ready or not, there are big changes happening in the world of storage infrastructure. The data your organization depends on continues to grow at an astonishing rate, but budgeting boatloads of money to spend on your IT infrastructure is out of the question. After all, what’s the point of throwing more money at the same [...]
I once was an advocate of the storage industry’s so-called Flash & Trash design approach. I enjoy saying this to clients and watching their reactions. Flash & Trash is the combination of Flash, NAND-based storage, and the big, dumb animal version of the traditional magnetic disk (7200 RPM or slower, but high-capacity NL-SAS/SATA). On the [...]
It seems like everything is software-defined these days. You have software-defined networks, software-defined storage, and software-defined data centers. When did hardware get such a bad rap? After all, no matter what magic your software can do, it still requires hardware in order to run. I realize that what is really meant by software-defined is that [...]
As a Sirius storage architect, I’ve designed and implemented NetApp’s Data ONTAP for enterprise clients for as long as the solution has been available. When I first heard about NetApp’s new 3X Performance Guarantee I was immediately curious, as I’m sure many of you are. For many IT decision-makers in both the public and private [...]
As a solutions architect for Sirius, my work could easily be described as a continual process of learning new technologies and uncovering ways to manipulate them so they provide all the intended benefits to my clients. So you might find it funny that I consider myself averse to change. I would be upset if went [...]