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FCoE vs. SSD

George Crump
September 18, 2009
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has, in many supplier camps, been preordained as the heir apparent to the infrastructure. Solid State Disks (SSD) have been preordained by many, myself...
Data Centers

The Value Of Agents

George Crump
September 11, 2009
Agents are those little pieces of application code that need to be installed as a component of a larger application. There is the fear that installing an agent, or more accurately "yet...
Data Centers

The Need for Card Based QoS

George Crump
September 09, 2009
With server virtualization hitting full stride a key theme of phase two of these projects is increasing virtual machine density. There are many aspects of increasing virtual machine density...
Data Centers

Live from VMworld

George Crump
September 03, 2009
This week I will be at VMworld and will be giving ongoing reports of what we see there. Overall, the show seems as busy as last year. The facility is a little smaller and attendance may be...
Data Centers

Interactive Data Management

George Crump
August 28, 2009
Unstructured data continues to grow almost unabated. Applying policies and classifications to this data has proven to be a daunting task. For the most part, going back after the fact and...
Data Centers

Cloud Insurance?

George Crump
August 26, 2009
Cloud compute and cloud storage providers all have some form of SLA. We all hope they are buying quality back-end storage platforms to store their data on and that they are taking...
Data Centers

Cloud Storage Stability

George Crump
August 19, 2009
Every week or so one major internet service or another goes down for a moment, Amazon S3, Google Apps, Twitter etc... As a result I get a few emails using this as proof that the cloud is...
Data Centers

Tape Will Outlive Disk

George Crump
August 11, 2009
I'm sure we have all been guilty of predicting the end of tape and saying that the whole world will be disk based in the future, myself included. Tape may indeed meet its demise, but it won...
Data Centers

The Cloud As An Extension

George Crump
August 06, 2009
In my recent series of entries for Byte and Switch, I attempted to categorize cloud storage. Various companies are delivering sub-sections of cloud storage that when stacked together form...