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Environnemental Focus on Storage Environmentals
Last month I posted a couple of blogs on power efficiencies and tactics to reduce storage power consumption. There is plenty evidence that data and storage growth will continue to put pressures on...
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Concluding my short series on data center environmental costs and issues
I am heading to Park City, Utah for a week to escape the heat in Texas, and wanted to quickly conclude some thoughts on environmental costs and the impact of the right server and storage architecture....
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Economic Best Practices
I had a colleague call and talk about an economics analysis (cost reduction strategy) that he was starting with a large client in Asia next week. The customer wanted to know our “best practices” around...
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Mainframe Storage Economics: Part 1
I am speaking at SHARE this week in Anaheim, and my session will be on the economic impact of storage virtualization for the mainframe. My session details are here if you happen to be in attendance. As...
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Mainframe Storage Economics: Part 2
My last blog presented some of the same operational and capital pressures for mainframe that we see most often, on the open systems side of IT. This entry will present some of the key storage...
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Curbing Our Appetite for IT Capacity
Quite often while discussing cost-reduction, we draw a simple x-y graph that depicts: Flat, or nearly flat IT budgets, year over year Increasing demand for storage (and VM apps) capacity, usually at a...
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Curbing our Appetite for Storage Growth – Part 2
In my last post, I discussed the difficulty in accurately projecting new storage demand and the options available to the storage team to present new growth slopes with new/different storage...
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You think your remote replication and system microcode upgrades are hard…
NASA’s Martian rover Curiosity recently went through a complete computer software overhaul. The details of this can be found here. NASA engineers planned to upgrade and replace 4 GB of data, remotely...
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The Rolls Royce of Storage
A customer recently explained to me that our storage solutions were great, but were perceived as a “Rolls Royce solution,” and that they had to look at other options because they had some new budget...
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A Penny for your Gig
You may have seen this recent announcement from Amazon on their new Amazon Glacier Storage Service. This is a red-letter day in the annals of cloud storage service offerings in that a very low cost...
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Comparing all the costs in a 1-cent-a-GB cloud offering
Last week I wrote about Amazon’s new Glacier offering, with cloud storage set at $0.01/GB/month. Let’s take a closer look behind the headlines to compare and contrast the total cost and not get hung-up...
View ArticleThe Economics behind the new HUS VM
This week HDS announced HUS VM, filling the void for enterprise-class virtualization at a much lower entry price. See the details of the announcement here. In addition to the powerful features and...
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An 11-Step Program
I know there is a 12-step program for addiction recovery, but I am not writing about this. Instead, I am writing about a structured, methodical approach to reduce the unit cost of IT. These methods and...
View ArticleTransformation and the Impact to your IT Staff – Part 1
We talk a lot about transformation in IT—transforming architectures with virtualization, transforming asset ownership with cloud and utility services, or transforming work tasks with (remote) managed...
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Transformation and the Impact to your IT Staff–Part 2
This is a multi-blog series on IT transformations and the impact that must be considered to your IT staff. I will cover virtualization, with an emphasis on storage virtualization, in this summary of my...
View ArticleTransformation and the Impact to your IT Staff–Part 3
This is the third segment in a series of blogs related to the potential impact to your staff with various transformational elements. My last topic was the impact of virtualization to your staff. One of...
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Transformation and the Impact to your IT Staff—Part 4 “Utility-based...
This is the fourth segment in a series of blogs related to the potential impact to your staff with various transformational elements. My previous topics covered how virtualization and chargeback can...
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Transformation and the Impact from Converged Infrastructures—Part 5
This is the 5th and final blog installment on the topic of transformation projects and their impact to IT teams. So far I have touched on the staff impact due to virtualization, chargeback,...
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Economic Cliff Diving
There’s a lot in the news about countries around the world heading towards some type of fiscal cliff. As we approach the end of the calendar year, many governments are struggling with debt, spending...
View ArticleAlternative Acquisition Methods
I received a comment on a recent posting—Comparing all the costs in a 1-cent-a-GB cloud offering—and chose to make this a topic of a new blog. Our reader, Javed asks “How will HDS compete financially...
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