Continuing this week's theme on "best of breed", some questions arise: How is this calculated or determined? How is one storage solution "better" than another? Which attributes weigh more heavily in the decision? Some attributes are directly measurable, like storage performance. …
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Management Complexity Factor for Media and Entertainment Industry
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IBM introduces new cloud offerings
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage?entry=ibm_introduces_new_cloud_offeringsIn his post on Rough Type titled ["McKinsey surveys the new software landscape"], Nick Carr discusses the growing acceptance in the marketplace for Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS. He summarizes the results of McKinsey's recent [Enterprise Software Customer Survey 2008]. …
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Teamwork in the Data Center
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage?entry=teamwork_in_the_data_centerForrester Research has new research findings titled [Consolidate Storage Vendors To Reduce Complexity]. Here's an excerpt from their executive summary, "Our survey data shows that over the past 12 months, more firms have bought their storage from a single vendor. …
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What is Open Storage? White Paper
http://blogs.sun.com/TA/entry/open_storage_adoptionTony Pearson at IBM related Open Storage to "Simply Dinners" - which is not a bad analogy. I was thinking of the analogy of going to Home Depot or Lowe's vs. hiring a contractor for your house project - but Simply Dinners will do. Marc Farley at Dell asked if
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Taylor's Take on Sun Storage
http://blogs.sun.com/TAHu Yoshida (HDS) James Governor Jay Wallace (Sun) Jeff Cheeney (Sun) John McArthur Jon Toigo Jonathan's Blog (Sun) Robin Harris Steve's IT Rants (ESG) Storage Soup Storage Stop (Sun) Tony Pearson (IBM) Wikibon Storage Portal Sun Internal Wiki
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IBM developerWorks : Blogs : An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization
http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtu...business benefits Storage Virtualization can bring, some of which we did not fully appreciated when we began working on SVC, nonetheless many of our customers were quick to point out how great things were. One in particular Andy makes reference to and Tony discusses [vendor lockin] more in his recent post. Categories : [ IBM | SVC | storage | virtualization ] May 06 2008, 04:50:55 PM EDT Permalink
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Andy Monshaw interview at eWeek
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtuali...business benefits Storage Virtualization can bring, some of which we did not fully appreciated when we began working on SVC, nonetheless many of our customers were quick to point out how great things were. One in particular Andy makes reference to and Tony discusses [vendor lockin] more in his recent post.
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IBM developerWorks : Blogs : An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtuali...The speaker went on to explain that he felt Storage Virtualization would become the same, i.e. something you take for granted. So why would we want to do that? Well thats what I plan to outline over the next few (probably weeks) of posts - unlike Tony who manages to nicely week'ify his topics, I seem to manage a month'ify at best! My initial thoughts are to cover the following ideas : The problem The solution The benefits The gotchas The things to look for in a solution
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The WEB 2.0 Big Five - Yuk!
http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/the-web-20-big-five-yuk/IBM introduces new cloud offerings
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IBM developerWorks : Blogs : An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization
http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtu...The speaker went on to explain that he felt Storage Virtualization would become the same, i.e. something you take for granted. So why would we want to do that? Well thats what I plan to outline over the next few (probably weeks) of posts - unlike Tony who manages to nicely week'ify his topics, I seem to manage a month'ify at best! My initial thoughts are to cover the following ideas : The problem The solution The benefits The gotchas The things to look for in a solution
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Why virtualize - part 1
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtuali...The speaker went on to explain that he felt Storage Virtualization would become the same, i.e. something you take for granted. So why would we want to do that? Well thats what I plan to outline over the next few (probably weeks) of posts - unlike Tony
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This Week in Storage
http://datacenterlinks.blogspot.com/2008/04/this-week-in-sto...small and medium size business, something that Arsenal brought 3,400 of to IBM in the merger. Check out the eWeek article here. StorageMojo has an article on the notebook flash SSD market. Tony Pearson, over at the Inside System Storage blog at IBM, comments on the recent Forrester Research finding titled "Consolidate Storage Vendors To Reduce Complexity"
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SNWSpotlight: The Week In Review
http://www.recycledinkcartridgesworld.com/2008/04/28/snwspot...for storage folks. For the many who made it to Orlando for this show, and for those who followed online from around the world, there was plenty to learn and share, from the floor (where you might have seen this IBM System Storage on display) to the Xiotech announcement. In this podcast, an overview of the week at Storage Networking World from keynote speakers, analysts, and industry leaders. SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World.
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