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Servers & Storage
[Includes: Virtualisation ] IT Analysis - How Green is my V-Word? [July 2007]
Establishing exactly what power savings you are going to get from an infrastructure virtualisation project is not straightforward, but it could be significant. [More]
Gaining Maximum Value from Information and Data [July 2007]
Mid-sized organisations have similar issues to large organisations when it comes to the storage and management of information and data, yet they often have limited capability to attract, retain and maintain the skills that large organisations will use in managing their data assets. There is a strong need for more effective tools that will enable mid-sized organisations to manage their data assets and gain the greatest value from them. [More]
Storage has MAID in waiting - Should companies be considering this new approach to longer term data storage? [April 2007]
A couple of years ago, I was hosting a session at Storage Expo. One of the presenters was from a major financial institution, and he was extolling the virtues of what was then a brand new storage technology, called Massive Array of Idle Disks, or MAID. Truth be told, there wasn’t all that new about the technology – it still involved racks of hard drives, big boxes with flashing lights, and all that. Where it differed was in one simple but quite fundamental way: that the hard drives, when not being used, could be turned off. [More]
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