Data storage management

IBM virtual desktop storage update – sort of

Last week I wrote about some confusion I had regarding IBM's virtual storage optimizer (VSO) for VMware Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), especially after I was told by a VMware official that the IBM product, credited to an internally-developed algorithm,

Further news and reading from VMWorld

A couple of additional storage announcements not captured in our VMWorld preview wrap: EMC Corp. said EMC Control Center (ECC)  6.1 will now support reporting on...

The great storage chargeback debate

"You need HOW MUCH for storage?!" That question has been heard by many of us currently submitting budgets for the next calendar year, quickly followed by "Are you SURE you need that much disk? Didn't we just get disk last year? Where did they all go!? I want your house audited....

Google Search Appliance bulks up

Google has revamped the hardware and some aspects of the software for the Google Search Appliance, which can now support 10 million files in a single box, up from 3 million in the previous version. Google has also added new biasing features which allow corporate administrators to weight search...

ILM seems to be MIA, but why?

I don't see the terms ILM or Data Lifecycle Management mentioned much anymore on the Interwebs. Odd that we have this many regulatory pressures, and the one thing that could actually save us some money, time and stress when dealing with those pressures hasn't been seen in headlines for at least a...

Brocade still a fan (not FAN) of software

Although Brocade has a lot on its connectivity plate these days as it transitions to 8-Gbps FC switches, plots its move to FCoE and gets into the

The enterprise and open-source storage

Jesse at SanGod wrote an interesting post the other day entitled "Enterprise storage vs....not."

I have a cousin. Very well-to-do man, owns a company that does something with storing and providing stock data to other users....