Fan-in/fan-out storage virtualization?
Any idea where I could get documents on SAN Performance Testing? Or an explanation of what fan-in and fan-out storage virtualization is?

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  7:02 PM
Storage, Storage devices, Storage strategy, Storage technology, Storage virtualization, Storage virtualization software

Adobe Internet Flash settings
Does anyone know, other than the settings manager that you bring up when you right click on a flash file, where to set the storage amount for flash files? Some of our users updated thier flash, I have changed the registry so it doesn’t happen again. But the new version goes down to 10k for [...]

Answer Question   |  July 15, 2010  3:41 PM
Adobe Flash, Flash memory, Storage capacity planning, Storage strategy, Windows XP Pro

Locations throughout the US need a storage strategy. Our current strategy has servers and individual machines backing up to web-based services
We have a data center I was thinking of acquiring a SAN unit from, then using DFS to copy server files to the SAN and then back that information to a remote storage site. How do I accomplish this with laptops? Do I use folder redirection, that takes too much time when logging in?

Answer Question   |  June 16, 2010  4:28 PM
Backup, Data Center management, DFS, Remote backups, SAN, Storage in 2010, Storage strategy

File system using FUSE
I’m working on understanding and building a usable file system using FUSE(FIle system in user space). I currently have two file systems in mind that I think are useful. 1. Versioning file system 2. Gmail File system Any suggestions on what I can work on to make the project more exciting? An upgrade to the [...]

Answer Question   |  February 2, 2009  5:48 PM
Storage File system FUSE, Storage strategy

Is thin provisioning a nice to have or critical in your storage planning?
Is thin provisioning a nice to have or critical in your storage planning?

Answer Question   |  October 20, 2008  2:04 PM
Dell Storage, Storage strategy, Thin provisioning

What is keeping you from moving to D2D2T backup solution?
What is keeping you from moving to D2D2T backup solution?

Answer Question   |  October 7, 2008  2:02 PM
Backup, D2D2T, Dell Storage, Storage strategy

Are new improvements in storage around power and cooling leading you to start factoring storage into your power and cooling planning?
Are new improvements in storage around power and cooling leading you to start factoring storage into your power and cooling planning?

Answer Question   |  October 14, 2008  1:49 PM
Dell Storage, Power and cooling, Storage, Storage strategy

Is virtualization causing you to rethink your storage infrastructure or consider adding/moving to a SAN?
Is virtualization causing you to rethink your storage infrastructure or consider adding/moving to a SAN?

Answer Question   |  September 28, 2008  1:40 PM
Dell Storage, SAN, Storage infrastructure, Storage strategy, Virtualization

Do 10Gbit iSCSI and 8Gbit FC change how you think about your strategy for managing your data in the future?
Do 10Gbit iSCSI and 8Gbit FC change how you think about this and your strategy for managing your data in the future?

Answer Question   |  November 6, 2008  5:31 PM
Data management, Dell Storage, Fibre channel, iSCSI, Storage strategy

Best practices for large storage device
My company just bought a two large attached storage devices for disk based backup (each device has 14 x 300 gb). Each device has two controllers, and I have two dual channel SCSI HBA’s that I can connect them to. Before setting this up, I wanted to check with all of you pro’s out there [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2009  1:40 PM
Storage, Storage management, Storage strategy

beginning SAN infrastructre for the company.
On my windows 2 cpu server with 20 disks, disk queue lengths exceed 40. Windows perfmon and IOmeter benchmarks give me 0.9K IOPs for write and 2K for reads, 8K OLTP block size. #disks : 20 : 36 GB, 15K rpm, U320 scsi with two dual channel controllers with 256 MB cache each. I am [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2009  4:44 PM
SAN, SAN architecture, Storage strategy