Posts Tagged ‘SANs’

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 [...]

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

Credit Union Game Breaking Ideas – Swiss Army Knife using Virtualization and iSCSI SAN Shared Storage – Case Study with Johns Hopkins Federal Credit Union

May 15th, 2009 Bill Murphy

Everyone loves a Swiss Army Knife because it is flexible, has many options, and is functional. What if you approached your network this way?
Join me for a MICRO – Web Learning Seminar Case Study May 21st 3:00 – 3:45PM
This will be a joint presentation Case Study presentation with me and Joe Fletcher with Johns Hopkins [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CASE STUDY: How to Recession Proof Your Credit Union with Strategic IT Spending

April 21st, 2008 Bill Murphy

Here are a few “what-if” scenarios for your IT vision:
*What if your IT infrastructure were “plug-n-play”?
*What if your IT infrastructure were “portable”?
*What if your countless data bases were “portable” and “consolidated”?
*How would your DR and infrastructure spending change if you knew that $1.00 in spending could gain you critical compliance momentum regarding DR, infrastructure, and [...]