With all the talk about Cisco, the possible IBM-Sun merger, and other hot news of the day, this has also been a remarkable week for posts on other topics of interest to the storage community.
Here are a few that caught my attention:
HDS - Hu’s Blog - Your Assets, Sweat it or Enhance It
Hu Yoshida spoke with a hospital CIO from Hong Kong, where medical records are already digitized, gaining some insight on what kind of storage demand will be created when this same process begins under the new stimulus plan. Hu points out how useful virtualization and dynamic provisioning are for efficiency. As I’ve mentioned in the past, Ocarina has developed compression algorithms specific to several life sciences file types, another way to increase capacity.
Channel Marker - George Crump - Disk Archiving: How do you know it’s not the next ILM?
Why disk archiving to secondary tier storage is actually useful to customers–rather than a misguided attempt to fix a problem that wasn’t broken, which was the case with ILM. As Crump mentions in passing, Ocarina’s content aware compression can help maximize secondary tier storage capacity–helping save even more in storage costs.
Seagate - Pete Steege - I thawed out my disk drive. Did it work?
Amazing footage of Pete Steege taking a chainsaw and cutting a disk drive that he had frozen into an ice rink for 100 days. I won’t spoil it by telling you what happens in this experiment, except to say it’s the kind of thing that reminds me of why I like the storage crowd so much. There truly is a spirit of adventure and willingness to try out the novel–even at times the bizarre–to put hardware to the test.
