Complete Industry Article List

3/10/10  Briefing Report by George Crump: 3PAR Briefing Report - Autonomic Storage Tiering - In a recent briefing with Storage Switzerland, 3PAR covered the news of their new Autonomic Storage Tiering and SSD support. In this announcement 3PAR addresses one of the biggest challenges facing the wide spread deployment of Solid State Disk; knowing how and when to use the technology....[MORE]

3/9/10  Article by George Crump: Selecting Which SSD to Use Part III - Budget - The final discussion point in selecting which SSD to use may, in reality, be the actual first step that a storage manager takes - understanding the budget. Money alone should not rule out any of the choices, because maybe further justification can get more budget allocated to the project. At some point however, the hard realities of how much money is available sets in....[MORE]

3/5/10  Article by George Crump: Using Automated Tiering to Mainstream Cloud Storage - An Automated Tiering System (ATS) moves data between tiers of storage. When data is active it's moved up the storage tiers, eventually residing on some form of solid state disk (SSD). ATSs come in several forms, some of the least disruptive and safest to implement being those which act like a cache for active data. These systems, in particular, can be used to mainstream cloud storage....[MORE]

3/1/10  Lab Report Update by George Crump: DroboElite Test Update - This update was supposed to occur over the weekend but the DroboElite does a good job of making me feel guilty about having it run out of capacity. It must be a weakness but when things flash red I am forced into action. When it comes to managing storage though, that is exactly what you want. Today we are going to upgrade the capacity on the system....[MORE]

3/1/10  Presentation by George Crump: FCoE Quickcast - In this quickcast Storage Switzerland will give you a quick introduction to Fibre Channel over Ethernet. After viewing this 10 minute video you will have the answers to questions like:  What is FCoE?, Why is FCoE important?What environments are best for FCoE?, AND When should I start deploying FCoE?....[MORE]

2/26/10  Briefing Report by George Crump: Imation Pro WX Wireless USB Hard Drive - For a few months now Storage Switzerland has been putting the Imation Pro WX Wireless USB Hard Drive through its paces. First off this is not a WiFi attached hard drive or NAS. It is an external USB hard drive that instead of attaching via a USB cable attaches wirelessly. Its a product that fits well not only for the home user wanting to reduce the cables scattered across the desk but also the office worker wanting to do the same....[MORE]