It was a bad day for Steve Bettoni, Tech Support and IT Procurement Officer of Stockport College. Steve is responsible for the infrastructure that supports the college's enrollment apps, SAP, and Exchange, so you can imagine his level of anxiety on enrollment day—the busiest day for [...]
A few months back, Jerry Baldwin, our CEO, gave me a strange assignment. "We need something different, something fun," he said. "Go write an ebook."I must have looked puzzled because he went on, "Write what you want, be creative. If I like it, we'll figure [...]
I recently spoke with Bell Mobility's Adam Moore, a member of the organization's OSS Systems Integration Team. Bell Mobility is Bell Canada's wireless division, employing a multitude of analysts who eat, sleep, and breathe Big Data. They capture metrics and run analytics on call failures, call drops, [...]
Modern IT infrastructures deal with enough I/O traffic as it is. The last thing they need is unnecessary I/O. It's no surprise that IT struggles with performance problems caused by the tidal wave of data that travels back and forth across the infrastructure in the form [...]
In today’s well connected world of electronics and instant communications I received a text from a friend asking if I had seen the recent PC World magazine (February, 2012). He said it had some tidbit of information concerning one of my favorite subjects; system performance, [...]
Overview The intensified demand for IT network efficiency and lower operating costs has been driving the phenomenal growth of virtualization in the past decade, with no signs of slowing. At present, many corporations run more virtualized servers than physical servers. While virtualization provides opportunity for [...]
Coming Soon: V-locity 3.0 (virtual platform optimizer) has some fantastic new features in it we're sure you’ll like, including: +Full Support for ESXi Server (in addition to existing support for ESX and Hyper-V) +Reduced installation effort for ESX Servers (no installation on Host) +New CogniSAN technology [...]
Okay, so you've bought, installed, connected, configured, and then tuned/optimized your new storage virtualization solution, but somehow there are still latencies with apps (e.g. SQL). You've run the Storage Area Network (SAN) vendor utilities that: did not see any contention on the disks in the RAID group(s). [...]
Overview: As high performing storage solutions based on block protocols (e.g. iSCSI, FC), SANs excel at optimizing block access. SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating systems file system; usually NTFS when discussing Microsoft Windows®. That dictates that a SAN is unaware of [...]
Later this month (Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 12:00pm Eastern / 9:00am Pacific), IT Analyst David Chernicoff and I will co-host a webinar covering the benefits and caveats of defragmenting SAN attached servers. Here is the abstract: As storage technologies have become more advanced there [...]