Posts Tagged ‘SAN’

iSCSI SANs: Plan, Plan, Plan!

August 24th, 2010 Bill Murphy

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A lot of attention is given to the manufacturers of iSCSI SANs. We often hear about how great they are with virtualization, and that they are low cost and easy to manage compared to FC Fiber Channel storage and other approaches. There is precious little information, however, regarding the usage strategy for a new iSCSI [...]

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Implementing an IT Disaster Recovery Plan That Works (Part 2)

August 17th, 2010 Bill Murphy

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A larger credit union client of mine said to me: “Bill, we have all this stuff and my staff if good. How do we pull all this software and hardware together into a comprehensive Disaster Recovery program?” Over the past two years, the credit union had acquired the following:

Fatpipe load balancers
VMware
Backup software (Issue: tapeless versus traditional? They [...]

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Dell Releases New PS4000 iSCSI SAN for Medium Credit Unions

June 30th, 2009 Bill Murphy

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iSCSI SANs made for medium credit unions

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Virtualization – Time for Unbiased Opinions and Vendor Neutrality.

May 14th, 2009 Bill Murphy

This is an incredibly exciting time for virtualization. I see the uptake everywhere I turn for virtualization projects. I want to share some good resources that some of you may want to hit as you look at virtualization Hypervisor selection (VMWare, Hyper V, Citrix, etc) , iSCSI SAN projects, HA LAN projects, and DR initiatives. [...]

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Drive IT Costs Down with Server and Desktop Virtualization

February 13th, 2009 Bill Murphy

The more I visit with my clients I see the effect that server virtualization is having with credit unions. 4 years ago when I started recommending virtualization strategies all I heard was crickets. Now the tide has changed and literally the only question to ask oneself is, “Why am I not virtualizing?” In today’s environment [...]

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Drive IT Costs Down with Desktop Virtualization VDI

February 7th, 2009 Bill Murphy

I almost forgot to mention that I have been excited about this concept of desktop virtualization for a long time. I have only 2 customers out of 40 credit unions who are fully deployed on thin clients using Citrix. The client side requirements for Citrix have usually made the technology a show stopper due to [...]

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iSCSI SAN Business Case

June 27th, 2008 Bill Murphy

I just spent my entire week at the Burton Group Catalyst conference in San Diego, California (www.burtongroup.com). Burton Group has the best industry analysts and researchers in security, identity management, virtualization and the SAN industry.
The number of Virtualization Hypervisor vendors vying for position is exciting. Clearly VMware is in the lead and the immediate safe bet for credit [...]

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Backup and Corruption Protection: “I want to go tapeless”

May 15th, 2008 Bill Murphy

I constantly hear:
1) “I want to virtualize my environment.”
2) “I want to eliminate tapes and go tapeless.”
3) “I want buy a SAN.”
4) “I want to replicate between my headquarters (HQ) and DR facility.”
The key here is appropriately mixing technologies. By design, and based on the laws of physics, virtualization and SANs need speed and high performance. [...]

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