ARX

Reason #5 That You Need File Virtualization If you’re just joining this series, there is a complete list of the Reasons to date on my team member page. Are we at reason #5 already? Wow. Okay, this is another one that salesmen will tell you because it is truly compelling, but it is truly a good reason, one of the best. It is also one of the ones that I eschewed before getting to see real numbers that I could quantify were not marketing material. The disk savings are real. Yeah, I said it, and it’s true. Sure, you could argue that... posted @ Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:13 PM | Feedback (3)

Reason #1 That You Need File Virtualization So I’ve been going to start this series forever, and things just kept piling up. Today I have decided to embark upon it, and worry later about other commitments, because I think it is an important topic. I wasn’t a fan of File/NAS Virtualization at first – it seemed like an added layer to the very clean (if chatty) NAS hierarchy. I’ve grown to understand that the addition of the layer is nothing compared to the adaptability that layer provides, so I want to share. This series will start with the low-hanging fruit, the stuff that anyone who’s... posted @ Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:09 PM | Feedback (4)

F5 ARX and Data Domain - Reduced Expense, Streamlined Storage We get the opportunity to interview people on occasion, and when we signed a partnership with Data Domain, I became intrigued. The two technologies definitely could be complimentary, but I wanted to understand the how/why of our partnership. Rick Gillett, VP of Data Systems Architecture took some time to chat with me and provide some slides that illustrate how the two technologies work together via this partnership and what the cost implications could be - based on real-world deployments of ARX with Data Domain. It had some serious surprises for me, that's for certain, I'm hoping it does for you... posted @ Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:15 PM | Feedback (0)

Virtualized Storage - Cleaning up invisibly. Last week while Joe and I were at our Lowell offices (formerly Acopia, now known as the F5 Data Solutions group), I learned a lot that I didn't previously know about our ARX directory-level virtualization product. Now I'm not new to the storage space, and indeed, had looked at Acopia briefly when I was the storage editor at Network Computing, but there was so much going on in storage at the time that I never got around to covering them directly. All things considered, I hoped to get a handle on how specifically we did what all storage virtualization products... posted @ Monday, September 15, 2008 10:57 AM | Feedback (0)

Travel-n-Learn. That's the life. So I'm sitting in the airport in Boston, going home after a three day stint here learning about the ARX and getting some other stuff done that Joe and I had on our agenda. I'm coming home with a ton of fodder for how to utilize ARX in your enterprise, both alone and with LTM. Soon you'll be seeing more storage blog posts from me, and that's good news, I really enjoy the storage space - except for that part where a few companies control the high end and good ideas either go through them or die on the vine.... posted @ Friday, September 12, 2008 3:32 PM | Feedback (2)