Joerg Hallbauer

Joerg Hallbauer

About the Author:

I am a long time data center denizen who currently focuses on storage and storage related issues. I have worked on both sides of the fence, for vendors as well as being the guy who had to impliment what they sold me. Finally, I've managed teams of UNIX, Windows, and Storage Admins.

Articles by Joerg Hallbauer

IBM XIV Could Be Hazardous to Your Career

January 6, 2009

So, I haven’t blogged in a while. I guess I should make all of the usual excuses about being busy (which is true), etc. But the fact of the matter is that I really haven’t had a whole heck of a lot that I thought would be of interest, certainly there …

The Future of storage, or is the disk drive dead?

July 30, 2008

We are running out of places to put things.

Data continues to grow at a frightening rate. According to an IDC study there was about 281 Exabytes of data stored on disk in 2007 word wide. This data is growing at CAGR of about 70%. At this rate, in 3 ye…

Storage Sea Change

May 13, 2008

Folks,After re-reading yesterday’s posting, I had one of those “well DUH” moments. It seems obvious now, but it hit me like a ton of bricks. Block Storage Virtualization (BSV) is creating a sea change for how people are going to buy their storage. Once…

Block Storage Virtualization

May 12, 2008

For my first posting I really want to talk about block storage virtualization. I really think that 2008 will be the year that people start to roll this out in production in a serious way. Why? It’s the money stupid!Yes, that’s right, with the economy g…

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