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Comment on This year’s big storage story by Krishna Deepak

Krishna Deepak — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:45:02 +0000

Contrgats for the honor from Byte & Switch. There would be great challenge to Ocarina from the likes of Symentec, NetApp and EMC from their dedupe and compression technologies like EMC’s Symmetric and Clariion boxes

Comment on The impending storage crunch by UsualAnalyst

UsualAnalyst — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:43:45 +0000

I talk to a lot of people that are advocates of “delete old data”. They must not be familiar with situations where old data is still valuable. Imagine telling a studio company to delete their 30 year old movie. what nonsense that would be.

The point is, some information created is rubbish. that can surely be deleted - not 10 years later - but actually the day after it was created.

Most other information is useful and took someone’s time and effort to create. You cant just go around willy-nilly deleting information to save space.

By that paradigm, we’d just burn up all our libraries.

Comment on Nice to be quoted/mentioned by jos keulers

jos keulers — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:17:07 +0000

HI Carter

Good to see you back in the spotlights. I spent the last hour consuming the info on the site, and its looking good, very good indeed.

If you need someone who knows what going on over here, let me know

best

Jos

Comment on Capacity-Optimized Storage: The Emergence of the O Tier by This year’s big storage story « Storage Optimization

This year’s big storage story « Storage Optimization — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:19:34 +0000

[...] I mentioned in an earlier post, the kind of data that’s driving much of today’s storage [...]

Comment on The impending storage crunch by storageoptimization

storageoptimization — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:09:07 +0000

That’s a good point, Chris. Of course, compliance rules – especially for larger organizations – make it illegal to delete anything. Sarbox and HIPAA have created tremendous growth in storage.

I just talked to a hospital that has been in business for over 100 years. In all that time, their storage had grown to a total of 25 Terabytes. They project it to be 250 Terabytes by the end of next year. That’s tenfold growth, and it’s not because they are lazy. It’s because a) the latest generation of medical imaging machines are spitting many more images at much higher resolution and b) laws require them to keep these images archived for a very long time. By the same token, one of the web site customers we have spoken with offers a service for customers whose marketing pitch is “preserve your memories”.

The explicit promise is to keep your photos (and other things) safe forever. Again, that’s not laziness, it’s a combination of the fact that digital content now means a lot more to people, and the psychological fact that they want to keep it. It’s not laziness, it’s desire. That said, in the typical corporation, there are no doubt kajillions of PowerPoints and Word documents that are just sitting there, that no one is ever going to look at again, and which are not covered by compliance regulations – and that stuff could be deleted.
–Carter

Comment on The impending storage crunch by Chris M Evans

Chris M Evans — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:07:13 +0000

Carter

In fact, I think the issue is that we must *delete” the data we don’t need. Most people are inherently lazy. Increasing hard disk sizes have endulged their sloth and consequently no-one deleted anything.

Imagine you had a leaky roof. Would the answer be to find more pots and pans to catch the water? No the answer is mend the roof….

Comment on Capacity-Optimized Storage: The Emergence of the O Tier by Mike Maxey - ParaScale

Mike Maxey - ParaScale — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:05:54 +0000

Nice blog. I would also consider the impact of content storage on the “O” tier as well. This space is booming and driving requirements that existing architectures cannot satisfy.

Comment on In Startup City’s spotlight by Julie@BlueArc

Julie@BlueArc — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:24:18 +0000

Nice interview!

Comment on Rackspace down - what’s the lesson? by Kaden

Kaden — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:18:07 +0000

I would hardly say that their data center went down, rather than they just had some heat associated problems, and customers impacted. I’m a customer of Rackspace and was referred by another customer. We are both located in Rackspace’s Dallas data center and neither of us experienced any impact from recent power/cooling events. On both occasions though we’ve received information and updates about problems occurring, and that they “could” be impacting. It seems that Rackspace has a number of high profile customers, and when just one of two of them are impacted it’s automatically reported as a blackout, and that’s not the case. I’ve had great reliability with Rackspace. From the information that has come out about the most recent incident, it seems there was minimal customer impact (considering the overall size of their data center).

Comment on What to do about the coming video explosion by Rick

Rick — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:23:38 +0000

This is a big concern these days. I think even the skeptics can now agree that cloud storage is going to be the only truly efficient solution for these companies. the media libraries have to go somewhere. there are a few different cloud storage providers but i think the one that would be best-suited for these companies would be Nirvanix. they have built in video and audio transcoding services, which is a big plus for the media companies