OK, Sure, We’ll Call it ‘Software-Defined Storage’
A comment was made on the podcast the other day and the first thing that came to mind was this. Let’s have a bit of a Reality Check for a moment. This whole notion of “Software-Defined” is not much…
Category NetApp
Peering into 2013 and Beyond
As has become [almost] the status quo for tech bloggers, it’s borderline-mandatory that we do a “predictions for the next year” type of post, so that we can look back on it and laugh the following year. I didn’t get…
NetApp Clustered ONTAP Design Deep Dive
I’ve been waiting a long time to get to this post. I knew it needed to be talked about, I wanted to make sure we did it right, and I finally found the right person to speak as an SME…
Storage: A New Dawn (Part 2)
(This post is the second of a series of posts I will be publishing over the next few weeks on storage paradigm shifts, focusing on NetApp’s new DataONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode. You can read the first post here.) Picking right back…
Storage: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Part 1)
(This post is the first of a series of posts I will be publishing over the next few weeks on storage paradigm shifts, focusing on NetApp’s new DataONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode) For a few years now, we’ve heard the catch phrase,…
Data Immortality and the Death of Backup
Keypunch card from Columbia University Computer Center’s IBM 360 This post is full of a lot of my own personal hypothesis, theorycrafting, and general soap-box-ish-ness. But I figured we should set the stage a bit and start out with…