Where art thou, Standards?
This blog discusses how standards enable more efficient IT management and help reduce tools and labor costs.
Do SSDs Make Storage Performance a Lost Art?
Although SSDs provide many benefits, IntelliMagic Vision can help find and eliminate performance risk in your storage environment.
Five Activities to Avoid If You Want to Be a Hero
Being consistently proactive with your storage performance and capacity management processes reduces the number of crises.
Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the Block Services Performance (BSP) sub-profile: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 3 “The Ugly”
This blog focuses on the Block Services Performance (BSP) Sub-profile.
Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the Block Services Performance (BSP) sub-profile: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 2 “The Bad”
While the technology chosen by the SMI program has significant benefits, it also has challenges.
The Storage Management Initiative (SMI): the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 1 “The Good”
The notion of having a common mechanism to communicate with and report on storage devices is good for both us as a company that provides storage analytics software, and for our customers.
nil sub sole novum – Vision 7 Support for IBM APAR OA39993
IntelliMagic Vision provides support for tracking Interrupt Delay Time which is a timely addition to sub-millisecond response time reporting.
Less is More – Why 32 HyperPAVs are Better than 128
This blog discusses why you should base the number of aliases on the number of I/Os being processed concurrently on a channel set.
What HDS VSP and HP XP P9500 Should Be Reporting in RMF/SMF – But Aren’t
This post is about the Hitachi high-end storage array that is sold by HDS as the VSP and by HP as the XP P9500.