Today I read a very well written blog by The SANMan. The only issue is, you can't comment on his blog. This is the first technology blog I have seen like this. So, I will have to post my thought here.

In his post "NetApp Takes the "Primary" Lead for Data Reduction" - which seems more like theory and a commercial for NTAP than reality (see comments @… Read more »

CFOs have an incredibly hard job when it comes to helping IT manage a budget. Let’s face it, there have been books written (like ‘Does IT Matter, by Carr) that discuss the value of all those blinking lights in the data center.

The reality is that some of those blinking lights do matter and others are a financial sink hole. Over the past 3 years storage has crept up to be one of the higher… Read more »

Or should I say, ‘Setting the Record Straight on Backing Up Optimized Data’? Carter discusses on this blog they myriad of ways to perform backups on optimized data. (His blog actually reads more like a white paper explaining how backup needs to be configured to work with his product.) One of the ways Carter describes to do backup is via NDMP and says “… is the most complicated.” The funny thing is that this is… Read more »

This video doesn't talk about the merits of one versus the other but how when compression (or capacity optimization is done right) it should enhance data deduplication, not impact it.  Enjoy and for more videos like this one go to the StorwizeChannel. classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="580" height="360" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"

In keeping with some traditions I have learned while working for a company who is based in Israel - today, Saturday is the day of Shabbat (Shabbat (Hebrew: שַׁבָּת, Modern Shabbat … Read more »