Careers and Certifications Is It Time to Leave Corporate IT? George CrumpMarch 27, 2009IT people deserve to get up every day looking forward to a job that challenges them. That may have to be in a smaller organization
Careers and Certifications The FCoE Effect George CrumpMarch 25, 2009The big winners could be the storage HBA vendors while the traditional IP card manufacturers may be at risk
Careers and Certifications The Politics of Data Center Unification George CrumpMarch 20, 2009Infrastructure unification is almost certainly going to cause the network and storage groups to be merged into a single entity
Careers and Certifications In Praise of Evangelists George CrumpMarch 17, 2009The good ones will force you and me to reexamine things
Careers and Certifications What Does It Cost? George CrumpMarch 13, 2009It seems that some storage vendors, software vendors in particular, just don't want to tell you what their products cost
Careers and Certifications Innovation Is Incremental George CrumpMarch 06, 2009Almost every technological revolution was really backed by a lot of evolution that then crystallized into one vision
Careers and Certifications Cost Optimizing for Performance George CrumpMarch 04, 2009With larger drives and space optimization technologies, users have a lot of options for holding all their archive and backup data for a very long time
Careers and Certifications Enterprises & Cloud Storage George CrumpFebruary 27, 2009Have no doubt: Some of your corporate data is already in the cloud, and more of it is heading that way
Careers and Certifications Change Has to Be Compelling George CrumpFebruary 25, 2009What's lacking on the FCoE front is the compelling event. For now, I think that many storage admins will sit this one out
Careers and Certifications SRM - More Important Than Ever George CrumpFebruary 21, 2009With virtualization, manually tracking and updating storage resources on a spreadsheet may now be impossible
Careers and Certifications Intel Invests - Who Else Will Step Up? George CrumpFebruary 19, 2009Will we see some of the cash-rich companies in the storage industry following Intel's lead?
Careers and Certifications Server Memory vs. SSD George CrumpFebruary 14, 2009There are several reasons why an SSD is a better investment than putting more memory in your servers
Careers and Certifications Too Much De-Dupe George CrumpJanuary 30, 2009Suppliers need to call their data reduction solutions by what they are and what they do, not after the hottest marketing term
Careers and Certifications Castrating Bulls George CrumpJanuary 22, 2009When I opened NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz's first book, How to Castrate a Bull, I didn't put it down until I was almost half way through
Careers and Certifications The ROI of Using What You Have George CrumpJanuary 14, 2009Consider adding a storage appliance that will add additional capabilities or improve the performance of your storage