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		<title>FCIP Routers &#8211; A Best Practice Design Tip</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DS8000]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago a Glaswegian friend of mine quoted someone as saying that the 1981 anti-apartheid protests in New Zealand (South African rugby tour) showed that New Zealand was not just a floating Surrey as some had previously suspected. While the Surrey reference might be lost on those not from the England, I can tell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=2134&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Tier is even better than we thought!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM storage architects and IBM Business Partners are encouraged to use Disk Magic to model performance when recommending disk systems to meet a customer requirement. Recently v9.1 of Disk magic was released and it listed nine changes from v9. This little gem was one of them: &#8220;The Easy Tier predefined Skew Levels have been updated based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=2104&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hu&#8217;s on first, Tony&#8217;s on second, I Don&#8217;t Know&#8217;s on third</title>
		<link>http://storagebuddhist.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/hus-on-first-tonys-on-second-i-dont-knows-on-third/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[N Series]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post started life earlier this year as a post on the death of RAID-5 being signaled by the arrival of 3TB drives. The point being that you can&#8217;t afford to be exposed to a second drive failure for 2 or 3 whole days especially given the stress those drives are under during that rebuild [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=2023&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>XIV Gen3 Sequential Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Data can take a variety of forms but what better way to get a feeling for the performance of a big data storage system than using a standard audited benchmark to measure large file processing, large query processing, and video streaming. From the www.storageperformance.org website: &#8220;SPC-2 consists of three distinct workloads designed to demonstrate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=1940&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NAS Robot Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Storwize V7000 Unified (Storwize V7000U) enhancements mean that IBM&#8217;s common NAS software stack (first seen in SONAS) for CIFS/NFS/FTP/HTTP/SCP is now deployed into the midrange. Translating that into simpler language: IBM is now doing its own mid-range NAS/Block Unified disk systems. Anyone who has followed the SONAS product (and my posts on said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=1822&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Challenge with NAS Gateways</title>
		<link>http://storagebuddhist.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/a-small-challenge-with-nas-gateways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN Volume Controller Late in 2010, Netapp quietly announced they were not planning to support V Series (and by extension IBM N Series NAS Gateways) to be used with any recent version of IBM&#8217;s SAN Volume Controller. This was discussed more fully on the Netapp communities forum (you&#8217;ll need to create a login) and the reason given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=1680&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)</title>
		<link>http://storagebuddhist.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/hierarchical-storage-management-hsm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HSM is essentially a way to push disk files to lower tiers, mainly tape, while leaving behind a stub-file on disk, so that the file maintains it&#8217;s accessibility and its place in the directory tree. I say tape because there are other ways to do it between disk tiers that don&#8217;t involve stub files. e.g. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=1758&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Anatomy of a Purchase</title>
		<link>http://storagebuddhist.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/the-anatomy-of-a-purchase/</link>
		<comments>http://storagebuddhist.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/the-anatomy-of-a-purchase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working in a sales-oriented part of IBM, it&#8217;s interesting for me to be occasionally on the buying side of the equation and note my own reactions to different criteria, brands and situations. Recently I bought a second-hand X-Type Jaguar 2.1L SE (Singapore import), after considering a BMW 320i 2.2L E46 and a Nissan Skyline V35 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=1711&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of OEM Co-op-etition</title>
		<link>http://storagebuddhist.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/the-joys-of-oem-co-op-etition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently mulling over some examples of OEM co-op-etition in our industry: During the early 00&#8242;s IBM and Compaq OEM&#8217;d each others disk systems, the MA8000 from Compaq (sold as the MSS by IBM) and the ESS from IBM (sold as the CSS by Compaq) to give each other coverage in midrange and high-end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=1491&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>xkcd: Password Strength</title>
		<link>http://storagebuddhist.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/xkcd-password-strength/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Nature of Man]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just thought this one was worth highlighting&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=storagebuddhist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12501053&amp;post=1664&amp;subd=storagebuddhist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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