30 years ago, we shut down our servers early on Friday evening and drove 150 miles to our new location with a car full of tapes. After a weekend of acclimatisation, building logical volumes, mounting filesystems and loading tapes all through the night, we were there. Our shiny new Sequent [...]
Time is one of our most precious commodities. Once we use it, it's lost forever with no way to recover it. Luckily, the last few decades have provided us with technology that not only saves us time, but also offers plenty of instant gratification. For instance, streaming video has eliminated [...]
While storage technology has evolved rapidly over the years to keep up with exponential data growth, surprisingly, data migration technology has not evolved at the same rate. It is not uncommon for enterprises that pride themselves on using the latest storage technology to still be migrating their data the same [...]
You’ve made the decision to invest in an All-Flash storage solution because it promises better performance, lower costs, and more flexibility. When you switch to All-Flash storage your mission critical app will run 10 times faster. It’s as simple as that, right? Well, not quite that simple. There are two [...]