the storage anarchist

3.003: to boldly go

Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

And so begins our journey

Today, EMC announces the introduction of another category-creating product: EMC VPLEX. Built upon unique market-proven technology and hardened for the rigors of enterprise IT, VPLEX brings forth a revolutionary new platform for building and deploying distributed virtual data centers. And whether we call it Distributed Federation, a component of Virtual Storage, the On Ramp to the Private Cloud, an application Teleporter, a Time Machine for Data, the foundational component that extends the Virtual Mainframe beyond the walls of a single data center, or even simply distributed storage virtualization, VPLEX clearly will change the way we build and deploy applications.

By tearing down the barriers of space and time, VPLEX will allow us to rethink when and where we run applications. Couple with virtual server technology, VPLEX can allow applications to be relocated not only to another server cluster, but one in a totally different location. And with its unique approach to distributed cache management, VPLEX can enable applications to begin running at their new destination before all of the application’s data has been relocated. In fact, the Access Anywhere caching technology can even present data at a remote site without any data storage at the site! This capability of VPLEX Metro portends the future where VPLEX will both extend the distance between VPLEX clusters and expand the number of clusters VPLEX supports. As the VPLEX partner and development communities expand the use cases and integration beyond the hypervisors into database and application integration with the VPLEX distributed cache capabilities, we will see the emergence of new computing models.

We are at the beginning of a new journey.

3.002: expert advice on tiering with ibm db2

Someone sent me this link to an article on IBM developerWorks this morning:

Feature: Right Data, Right Place, Right Time
Storage tiering for the DB2 database administrator

Interestingly, the author was not someone from within IBM. Instead, this article comes from the company that has been pioneering the practicalities of tiered storage for several years:

Paul Pendle, Consulting Systems Integration Engineer, EMC Corporation

Nice work, Paul!

 

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3.001: my 18tb ipad 3g

OK, so I'm starting to see a faint glimmer of light at the end of the Get-Ready-For-EMC-World tunnel, as the content has to be nailed down pretty much solid tonight so that the hundreds of laptops can be pre-loaded for the week of sessions we'll be doing.

Whew!

For R&R between now and then, I thought I'd do a fun little post.

Soo…riddle me this:

Question: What does THIS

 

 

have to do with THAT?

 

 

Answer: I received a brand-spanking new Apple iPad 3G (64GB model, on the left) as a gift last Friday, and it is rapidly become my mobile desktop of choice. In fact, I'm almost convinced I'll do the entire EMC World without ever taking my laptop out of its case (I'm sure I'll not be the only one on that mission next week). I've already armed it with the productivity apps and presentations I'll need for my 1-on-1s, and things are looking pretty awesome.

On the right is the brand-spanking new Iomega ix12-300r SMB/Distributed Office rackmount storage array that Iomega announced yesterday. I am fortunate to have been a beta tester of the product for some (undisclosed amount of) time, and I must say, it is almost as exciting to the storage geek inside me as is the iPad to the personal-productivity geek that I am.