http://www.xivstorage.com/blog A Blog by Moshe Yanai and the XIV Team Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:49:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When comparing enterprise storage systems with regard to cost, it’s only human to dwell on the easier, concrete metrics, like box price, features, and capacity. But there are other, less measurable factors sailing in under the radar that may leave you with a system that’s cheap on paper ... http://www.xivstorage.com/blog/2009/02/storage-tco-intangible-cost-factors/ “Disk drives are the key component driving any storage system -- a system can perform only as fast as its disk drives.” While true, this kind of thinking can lead to the wrong conclusion… especially when the issue is one of the industry’s most debated: 15K RPM vs. 7200 RPM drives ... http://www.xivstorage.com/blog/2008/09/throttling-up-performance-more-drives-or-faster-drives/ In our first post we'd like to make a controversial statement sure to anger many of our readers: the storage industry has failed to meet market needs over the last 10 years. Why do we say that? Because top companies are building their own storage solutions instead of using available ... http://www.xivstorage.com/blog/2008/09/storage-industry-we-have-a-problem/ Welcome to the launch of ThinkStorage, the XIV blog. As you see in the About section, the focus of this blog is the storage community: administrators, IT professionals, and technology developers. We aim to keep the focus on storage technology. We warmly invite others to join the dialog. The first entry is ... http://www.xivstorage.com/blog/2008/09/welcome-to-thinkstorage/