Stevie Chambers wrote “the problem with an IT specialist is that he only gets to do the things he’s already good at, like building a coffin from the inside.”

I’ve noticed that I have been getting a lot of search engine hits relating to the various features, specifications and problems on the EMC CLARiiON array. One of the searches was related to a feature that has been around for a bit. It was actually introduced in 2001, but in order to give a full explanation I’m just going to start at the beginning.

Customers only hear what is useful to them. There, I’ve said it out loud and now I’ll just wait for my lapidation to begin.

There is one thing that keeps coming up lately in our office. We install a lot of systems virtually, and have over 8000 virtual servers installed.
Now, as anyone who has installed SAP will probably tell you, our software can do a lot of things, but one of the things it swallows up is RAM. […]

As you might have read in my earlier blog post, EMC has announced the release of the first version of their product called “Fully Automated Storage Tiering” or in short “FAST”.
Now, to describe the purpose of this technology in a very simple form, we are talking about the performance of your storage and some logic […]