Comments on: Intelligent Power Management (IPM) and second generation MAID 2.0 on the rise http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72 Greg Schulz of the StorageIO Group (www.storageio.com) blog and "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: July 2010 Odds and Ends: Perspectives, Tips and Articles | StorageIOblog http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-1838 July 2010 Odds and Ends: Perspectives, Tips and Articles | StorageIOblog Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:24:05 +0000 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72#comment-1838 [...] and money saving Green IT or storage optimization are often associated to mean things like MAID, Intelligent Power Management (IPM) for servers and storage disk drive spin down or data deduplication. In other words, technologies [...] [...] and money saving Green IT or storage optimization are often associated to mean things like MAID, Intelligent Power Management (IPM) for servers and storage disk drive spin down or data deduplication. In other words, technologies [...]

]]> By: Greg Schulz http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-373 Greg Schulz Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:47:45 +0000 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72#comment-373 Steve nice summary of greenbytes and good catch on the name including already being in use. I was briefed by the greenbyte folks a few weeks back about how they are essentially enhancing a Sun ZFS based solution adding a bunch of features that makes for a buzzword bingo feature or punch list. The questions I have about them after hearing their story as well as all of the others in the areas that greenbytes wants to put their hand up in the air to be included in discussions is, how extensive and comprehensive will the solution and the buzzword bingo feature line-up be, or, are all of the features just that, check mark items to differentiate a thumper based ZFS storage solution from others? Time will tell. Cheers gs Steve nice summary of greenbytes and good catch on the name including already being in use. I was briefed by the greenbyte folks a few weeks back about how they are essentially enhancing a Sun ZFS based solution adding a bunch of features that makes for a buzzword bingo feature or punch list.

The questions I have about them after hearing their story as well as all of the others in the areas that greenbytes wants to put their hand up in the air to be included in discussions is, how extensive and comprehensive will the solution and the buzzword bingo feature line-up be, or, are all of the features just that, check mark items to differentiate a thumper based ZFS storage solution from others?

Time will tell.
Cheers
gs

]]> By: Greg Schulz http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-1888 Greg Schulz Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:47:00 +0000 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72#comment-1888 Steve nice summary of greenbytes and good catch on the name including already being in use. I was briefed by the greenbyte folks a few weeks back about how they are essentially enhancing a Sun ZFS based solution adding a bunch of features that makes for a buzzword bingo feature or punch list. The questions I have about them after hearing their story as well as all of the others in the areas that greenbytes wants to put their hand up in the air to be included in discussions is, how extensive and comprehensive will the solution and the buzzword bingo feature line-up be, or, are all of the features just that, check mark items to differentiate a thumper based ZFS storage solution from others? Time will tell. Cheers gs Steve nice summary of greenbytes and good catch on the name including already being in use. I was briefed by the greenbyte folks a few weeks back about how they are essentially enhancing a Sun ZFS based solution adding a bunch of features that makes for a buzzword bingo feature or punch list.

The questions I have about them after hearing their story as well as all of the others in the areas that greenbytes wants to put their hand up in the air to be included in discussions is, how extensive and comprehensive will the solution and the buzzword bingo feature line-up be, or, are all of the features just that, check mark items to differentiate a thumper based ZFS storage solution from others?

Time will tell.
Cheers
gs

]]> By: greenBytes Embraces and Extends ZFS | Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-372 greenBytes Embraces and Extends ZFS | Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:13:52 +0000 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=72#comment-372 [...] looking to hop onto the green storage bandwagon, and they all seem to realize that bringing some intelligence to power management by enabling spin-down is an open door. But it’s awfully hard to maintain performance and data protection when disks [...] [...] looking to hop onto the green storage bandwagon, and they all seem to realize that bringing some intelligence to power management by enabling spin-down is an open door. But it’s awfully hard to maintain performance and data protection when disks [...]

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