Check out different mediums of storage throughout the years and the capacities they held. Maybe not as far back as punch cards, but since tape (especially for backups) trying to stuff more data in a smaller foot print has been around for a long time. Hope you enjoy.

Anything that upsets IT process is a big deal. It is important, as IT investigates new technologies for the data center, that to truly add value and provide a true ROI, the new technology must not impact all of the existing processes that are currently in place.

I have said it before and I am sure I will say it again, "The hardest thing to change in IT is not technology, it is process."

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I find myself in a true quandary. First, I have true admiration for my good friend and fellow blogger 3Par Farley and never feel comfortable being on the other side of the coin from him. Second, I find myself agreeing, to a degree, with Jon Toigo (who still uses crazy permalinks and considers Novell a serious storage player. What is up with that?).

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Users and Vendors alike have always had skepticism around capacity optimization and different points throughout history. The key, for end users is to be able to answer the questions:

What are you doing to my data? - This is directly related to availability and data integrity. If you can't ensure the customer will always have access to their data and it will be 'their' data then there is an issue.Whatever you do to my data… Read more »

Last week in was in a number of business development meetings when the question came up, "Can real-time compression work with SSD?" I thought the question was a bit odd because I would have assumed it was obvious that real-time compression would work with any primary storage, including SSD but it turns out that the question was just a validation question on the road to a brilliant solution stack for SSD. The two big issues… Read more »