Dear Uncle StorageMojo

by | Friday, February 16, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SAN, FC | 10 comments

There’s always a first time Sometimes it is great and sometimes, not so great. Advice to the SAN-lorn I’m asking StorageMojo.com readers to help this gentleman with his first SAN. I’ll kick off with my take after his letter. He didn’t ask to be...

Pumps, Pipes & Pools

by | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise | 1 comment

IT infrastructure made simple Data is like water. CPUs are the pumps. Networks are the pipes. And storage devices are the pools. Like any system, the components are related: changes in one usually leads to changes in the others. The coming wave Fast, cheap processors,...

Cool Data, Cold Cache

by | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 | Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI | 2 comments

Geeky computer guy that I am, I have my machine instrumented with programs (Mac users: MenuMeters) that tell me all kinds of useless information. Network usage, memory usage, CPU load and, of course, disk activity. Mostly all this stuff just tells me that the machine...

Isilon #1 Supplier of Storage Clusters

by | Friday, February 9, 2007 | Clusters | 14 comments

A reader piqued my curiosity I got a comment today from a gentleman named Kevin Stay on an the Isilon’s Q4 Results. Kevin was a little miffed with me. He wrote: “Isilon is validating the storage cluster market” ??? They are a tiny as yet unprofitable...

Isilon’s Q4 Results

by | Thursday, February 8, 2007 | Clusters | 5 comments

I’m not a stock analyst, so don’t do anything stupid on my account That said I see a lot to like in Isilon’s Q4 results. Not that their loss widened to $10.4 million, or 72 cents a share, from a year-earlier loss of $4.08 million, or 78 cents a...