I hope the new site layout isn’t throwing any of you off in any way. I simply got to a point where the older layout had gotten… well, old. I wanted something different that was a little easier on the eyes to read as opposed the darker background. Plus, the subject matter I write on [...]
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Thin Provisioning on Thin Ice
Recently, I just haven’t been able to go a day without reading something about the topic of Thin Provisioning. For those of you unaware of this feature, it’s a technique for providing an application or user a prescribed amount of dedicated storage without actually permanently allocating it. For example, let’s say an application is setup [...]
Happy about This Acquisition
I was totally stoked to read this news about Netgear’s most recent acquisition. A couple of my friends and former co-founders of NetAttach joined Infrant six years ago. It’s hard to believe they’ve been there for so long. I thought for sure I could convince a couple of them to join me in my new [...]
Bye-Bye Wildblue!
Well, the T1 is finally up and running. Man am I relieved. Can’t wait to give Wildblue the big boot out the door. In the past several weeks, we have had more outages than I can possibly count. It reminds me of the early days of cable modems. Anyway, now I can finally get the [...]
Fibre Channel over Ethernet?
The latest report from Byte and Switch has me scratching my head. Now I’ve heard everything. Proponents of FC are looking to talk FC protocol over Ethernet to compete with the likes of iSCSI. Now, the last time I looked, iSCSI was facing difficulty entering the data center due to the existing investment in FC. [...]
