The bedrock of storage is the disk drive, but an operating system cannot access disk drives without mediation via logical addressing that translates the physical characteristics of the disk — platters ...

Most enterprises have already virtualized existing physical servers (or are contemplating virtualization of their physical server environment) using server virtualization hypervisors. Today, the most ...

So I have begun drilling into how our SAN has been utilized at this point and I am pretty stunned how much wasted space we have. In total we have 12TB, and at least 4-5TB is wasted in inefficently ...

I'm in a bind! I've inherited a bunch of UCS chassis/blades that connect to an EMC VNX5600 SAN. The blades are running ESXi 5.5 and none of them have local storage; they all boot from LUNs on the SAN.

I’m always surprised that so many people still want to build their private and public cloud on logical units, served out by Fibre Channel SANs. From my point of view, we should have ditched the LUN ...

With SANs and NAS becoming the norm for both the enterprise and personal computing (welcome to the cloud), there's very little that IT staffs can expect users to manage all on their own. As an ...

What can the experience of managing IBM mainframes teach us about designing storage for public or private cloud computing? Plenty, it turns out… In my previous post, Designing Cloud Storage? Ditch the ...

No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as ...

With SANs and NAS becoming the norm for both the enterprise and personal computing (welcome to the cloud), there's very little that IT staffs can expect users to manage all on their own. As an ...