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Welcome to the Storage Wiki. Estimates vary but it’s well documented that spending on storage hardware, software and services exceeds $50B worldwide each year. Storage has always been and continues to be a critical component of the information infrastructure as data and information are the lifeblood of organizations.  
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The objective of this wiki is to provide information that fosters excellence in storage practices and leads various user communities to improve people’s lives, both in business and consumer settings. Ultimately, we hope to accelerate the adoption of and improve the application of storage technologies and services.  
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The Wikibon Data Storage Portal contains data storage industry research, articles, expert opinion, case studies, and data storage company profiles.  
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To accomplish this goal we’re focusing on four disciplines:
 
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# [[Storage strategy and planning]] to include the planning, justfication and roadmap for enterprise storage architecture
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# Best practices for [[storage management]], an ongoing discipline of adhering to clearly defined processes and procedures
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# The application of key [[storage technology]]
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# Solid [[asset management]] programs that address pricing, negotiation, contract management, license management and terms and conditions across the supplier ecosystem
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This wiki is designed to address these and other issues deemed relevant and noteworthy by this storage community. We encourage contributions that address:
 
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<p style="color: #666;">John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years. </p>
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<p style="color: #666;">A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center.  The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more  of the largest storage pools within a data center. 
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The Wikibon Data Storage Portal contains data storage industry research, articles, expert opinion, case studies, and data storage company profiles.


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Midsized companies are finding their way to the cloud

Two subjects dominate discussions of the market for cloud computing: how the cloud can help small businesses and cloud adoption by the large companies.

Of course, the benefits of the cloud for small businesses are obvious, giving them access to services they would have found too expensive to create in-house and helping them compete against bigger players. I have discussed this in a number of articles, including "5 Ways a Small Business can Use the Cloud" and "Cloud Will Allow the Smallest Companies to Compete Against the Largest". The large companies have the resources, both money and knowledge, to develop and access more complex cloud services to meet their needs.

As usual, the middle gets overlooked but this is changing.

Early this year, a study commissioned by IBM showed "that more than two-thirds [of midsized companies are] either planning or currently deploying cloud-based technologies to improve IT systems management while lowering costs". So midsized businesses are not insensitive to the cost and management benefits cloud computing could offers.

It could be argued that midsized businesses are in the perfect position to adopt the cloud: small enough to be flexible but large enough to have the expertise and afford deployment. And cloud computing services would bring them many advantages:

  • The inherent flexibility of cloud computing services enables midsized companies to be adaptable and respond to market changes quickly and without paying a high price.
  • The ability to pay only for what you use and add and drop services as and when needed means the beneficiaries are in a good position for both sudden growth or, if necessary, downsizing.
  • Pay for what you need with little investment in infrastructure allows midsized companies to concentrate their resources on exactly what they require.

The economic conditions are difficult, so companies have no surplus of capital to be invested in services and capacities that may not be needed. Cloud computing will not only maximize their financial capital, but also their human resources. Employees in charge of technology will be able to use their time better to produce better results for the business, instead of worrying about running the infrastructure.

The benefits may seem clear, but there are a few challenges in the road to cloud computing for medium-sized businesses. These include the usual issues of security, availability, fear, but also some additional ones. Medium-sized businesses are under immense pressure today, and the IT employees who would need to drive the migration to the cloud have difficulties finding the time and resources to think about implementing it.

But I think that all IT managers in medium sized companies should ask a few essential questions, including: Would cloud computing help me get more for the money, and will we be able to serve more to our customers more efficiently? If the answer is yes and a business case can be made, the choice is simple.

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Featured Case Study

Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years.

read more...

Storage Professional Alerts


Featured How-To Note

Storage Virtualization Design and Deployment

A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center.

read more...

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