Posts by digital display

Re: My first downding here

LOL.. Yup about a year or so..When the heck did EMC realize the effiency of virtualizing the Control plane?

maybe longer than a year. Their Software took forever to evolve from the old views of LUNs as objects over the entire enterprise. They were the #1 mfg. of SAN boxes for years..But got fat and lazy and have been playing catch up for a while. Reminds me of the 80's when Big Blue thought the future of all Enterprise datacenters would always be IBM mainframes and the cash would always roll in. They played catch up also for quite a while. ( I guess they never saw coming the server-client solution for a fraction of the cost and power usage. ) Also the Shark SAN product line took time to mature. I know years ago we used to take sharks in as a trade-in. I think Sun SAN division got screwed when they got bought by Oracle. Sure Oracle..Bundle hardware and Oracle together and see how that works out for you. It works well for Microsoft and Intel chips.

Ramp that 1200.00 investment into a corporate multi-million dollar investment and..Well you can see where that is going now..Does Sun even have a SAN division any longer? I know I haven't seen one in about 3 or 4 years. HP makes a solid solution with above average software, Micro code and quality parts.

Of course HP doesn't mfg. their own SAN boxes but the requirements are top notch at a good price point for Enterprise. HDS solutions can be a bit pricey but very high quality and support from CS&S engineers. You get what you pay for i suppose and if you are a big boy in the corporate world you want the best because it is the lifeblood of data in that world.

Re: Super-fast hard drive? Now that's an oxymoron!

Well..Not exactly..The SSD drives have entered the enterprise like a storm in the last few years..All the Big boys are using them and have fast SANS..HDS, EMC, HP, IBM etc..

you must consider the mix and use in SANS and HighCap systems of different disks. Many boxes still have lots of drives that are going to last for years to come..Backups and archived data from Oracle ERPs or SQL tables. You off load it to 10k lost cost drives.. You use for 15k drives for network shares and Databases.

Many are finding hypred drives offer low cost with a large high speed cache to move dynamic data almost close to a SSD with a fine tuned cache and effective load balancing.

There is a flaw with nand drives..In large Corps that are making millions of read and writes a sec. There is degragation with the memory. A normal user won't see it probably over years.. But these chips are just being slammed 24/7 with data and they wear out and make errors. There is a lot of work going on in that field.

Now..A few years ago when we started SSD in our products the contract changed to designate SSD's are a commodity part unlike when we sold professional high speed SCSI drive for service and repair/replace

in a few hours worldwide. A customer will pay a premium price for that stability and availability.

If the SSD starts wearing down and make erors..as much as those dang things cost.. All you can do is pitch them in the trash. a comodity...

Re: Recipe For Disaster!

LOL That's true..But nobody stands up external drives with-out the cool little stand.. That's just a PR Pic.

Besides..Nobody better knock any of my stuff over in my war room or spills a beer..

Why even a lipstick case next to the keyboard...Ok..Maybe not that..

Re: What's the point of all this?

Hi Mr. Coward.. I hear ya on many topics..We go back in tech time..

I've gone from a Sinclair, Wang Word processor since 1981 to the corporate world. Working within an Enterprise environment, I think gives us an above the cloud view of modern technology. Technology is more than faster chipsets and more memory..(although we who thought overclocking was a religion lusted over speed ) Now..Not so much..We hacked luggables with 20MB HDD running DOS and was in heaven.

That's what this whole lusting over iPhone and Droids makes me laugh ( inside of course )

I've backed off of phones a bit..If it can call do email and a couple of other nifty things..( Like security cameras at the house ) Then that is much as I need the damn thing..

I like real power..Running WAN's, installing Hypervisors and VM's, creating virtual networks, Creating Cisco switch/router instances and Clouds..practicing SDN. We are an Oracle house so ERP instances interest me. I like to understand the underpinnings of active directory and Linux servers..Those that started out in the early days understand the vast universe before us..It's just as exciting today as when I got my first DOS prompt.

I guess I go against the grain because I think my phone is good to find the closest Chinese take-out or talking to friends..Other than that..Meh...But check out my war room..My Systems Freaking Rock!

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