Storage Changes in VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4
Like clockwork, VMware has cranked out another update to their flagship enterprise product, ESX 3.5. The last update came out in early November, 2008, and included some major new functionality. What’s...
View ArticleBack From the Pile: Interesting Content From the Week of May 2, 2009
There were some interesting events and blog posts last week. This new weekly feature highlights those! Enterprise IT Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Reliance On Backup Tapes – What’s wrong with backup...
View ArticleIf Storage Vendors Were Automakers…
If the enterprise storage market was the auto market, who would be who?* EMC is Mercedes-Benz It’s big. It’s expensive. It’s powerful. Lots of folks say it’s the best, but some think the emperor isn’t...
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My 2009 IT Industry Predictions
It’s that time again, when everyone who thinks they’re a pundit (that would be everyone with a blog or Twitter account) has to make predictions for the coming year. But predictions are perilous: Get...
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Hybrid SSD/Hard Disk Drives: This Time For Sure!
Hard disk drive makers are adding flash storage to their conventional spinning-platter drives to improve performance and are targeting the performance PC market. Wait a second, haven’t we seen this...
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Two Online Events You Should Attend (And Two More That You Can’t)
I'll be presenting at two private events and one public webinar this week! I’ve been quite busy lately recording webinars, writing articles, and setting up speaking events. This week, I’m in Boston and...
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Where Did Blade Servers Come From?
Blade systems allow compact, stripped-down servers to be mounted in a chassis with shared power and I/O support. Among the benefits of blade servers, efficiency, manageability, reliability, performance...
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vSphere 6: NFS 4.1 Finally Has a Use?
Way back in the 1990’s, UNIX admins delighted in upgrading from NFSv2 to NFSv3. Then NFSv4 came around and … crickets. Now VMware has become the first major/useful/mainstream application for NFSv4.1,...
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Using NFS to Share Data Between UNIX and Mac OS X
I had a little bit of a learning experience this week regarding NFS exports and Mac OS X that I thought would be interesting to share with my readers. It’s part “simple tip” and part “facepalm.” Read...
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ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…)
ZFS should have been great, but I kind of hate it: ZFS seems to be trapped in the past, before it was sidelined it as the cool storage project of choice; it’s inflexible; it lacks modern flash...
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