August 17, 2017
New Patreon – How To Sponsor Storage Content
Why I decided to start monetizing through Patreon with the storage stuff.
The Dr. is in…
Tag Archives : Fibre Channel
August 17, 2017
July 31, 2017
December 1, 2016
Storage Basics: When to use SAN v. NAS
This is my answer to a question that came in via Quora: When should a administrator use a storage area network technology and when should he use a network area storage technology? “Network Area Storage” is not a commonly used term. The correct expansion of the NAS acronym is “Network Attached Storage,” which might make the the comparing/constrasting make a…
September 22, 2016
Fibre Channel and NVMe over Fabrics
A quick look at the strengths of Fibre Channel for NVMe-based fabrics.
August 18, 2016
Learning NVMe: A Program of Study
For those people who are looking to find out information about NVMe (NVM Express), but don’t know where to start, this is a course syllabi that can be used as a “program of study.”
August 18, 2016
July 2, 2016
Storage Forces
On June 13, I was a guest on The Hot Aisle Podcast, entitled “Fibre Channel is Dead, Right?” with Brian Carpenter and Brent Piatti. It’s by far one of the most in-depth technical conversations I’ve ever had on a podcast, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Brian had read an earlier blog I wrote about The Grand Unification Storage Theory, and…
May 18, 2016
The Grand Unification Storage Theory
I read with interest an article on The Register about a panel that happened at TECHunplugged (I wish I had known about this; I would have tried to attend in person if possible). The article was entitled “One Storage Protocol to Rule Them All” by Chris Evans, who is someone I like and respect a great deal in the industry.…
OpenStack and Storage, a Response
I respond to an excellent article by Stephen Foskett, who was responding to one of my one OpenStack articles.
FCoE, iSCSI, and InfinBand – Oh My!
Over at Etherealmind, Greg Ferro wrote a couple of pieces on FCoE that beg to be responded to. Obviously Mr. Ferro understands a great deal about the storage world, but when it comes to FCoE there are some points that I must disagree with.