Storage is expensive because of all the crazy custom hardware. But you don’t need that. The value is in the software. Spending money on fancy sheet metal isn’t going to make your data any safer.

SAS will take major market share from FC, some from ATA/SATA, and even share from iSCSI.

I’ve heard many questions lately about SAS (Serial Attached SCSI). Simple questions like, “What’s SAS?” or, “Why should I consider SAS?” This information can be found with simple web searches. Adaptec has a good section on the website dedicated to the education of SAS and will answer these questions easily and the […]

After all of the efforts over the years to agree on a standard with really no end result that the end users can see, hear, feel and touch – how could we really think that a standard could ever possibly prevail?

…an IT Manager asked me what I thought of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and it’s effects on Fibre Channel.

… Microsoft has been putting out feelers to customers and vendors over the last several months regarding dropping support in the Vista timeframe for PCI RAID clustering. …

It appears that Wilma has claimed its first SNW victim - Intel. I just received a message this morning saying that “due to Hurricane Wilma, Intel has decided to cancel our participation in next week’s Storage Networking World in Orlando, Florida”. …

In an effort to insight a riot with one of my fellow Storage Advisors I want to talk about “Virtual” Tape Library (VTL) options.

One of the things I really like about WAFS is that it compliments existing storage infrastructures.

Ah, Fall SNW - that wonderful time of year where we all sit naked around the campfire and chant about virtualization. But I have to tell you that I’m about to snap. The word virtualization means nothing - or everything…