
ILM and HSM on integrated systems - SONAS v1.1.1
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Continuing this week's discussion on IBM announcements, today I'll cover our integrated systems. The problem with spreading out these announcements across several days' worth of blog posts is that others beat you to the punch. Fellow blogger Richard Swain (IBM) has his post [Move that File], and TechTarget's Dave Raffo has an article titled [ "IBM SONAS gains policy-driven tiering, gateway to IBM XIV Storage System"]. By combining multiple components into a single "integrated system", IBM can offer a blended disk-and-tape storage solutions. This provides the best of both worlds, high speed access using disk, while providing lower costs and more energy efficiency with tape. According to a study by the Clipper Group, tape can be 23 times less expensive than disk over a 5 year total cost of ownership (TCO). The two we introduced recently were the [IBM Information Archive] and the Scale-Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS). This week, IBM announced some enhancements as SONAS v1.1.1 release. SONAS is the productized version of IBM's Scale-Out File Services (SoFS), which I discussed in my posts [Area Rugs versus Wall-to-Wall Carpeting] and [More details about IBM's Clustered Scalable NAS].
See the Announcement Letters for the SONAS [hardware] and [software] for more details. For those who are wondering how this positions against IBM's other NAS solution, the IBM System Storage N series, the rule of thumb is simple. If your capacity needs can be satisfied with a single N series box per location, use that. If not, consider SONAS instead. For those with non-IBM NAS filers that realize now that SONAS is a better approach, IBM offers migration services. Both the Information Archive and the SONAS can be accessed from z/OS or Linux on System z mainframe, from "IBM i", AIX and Linux on POWER systems, all x86-based operating systems that run on System x servers, as well as any non-IBM server that has a supported NAS client.
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TechTarget Features Inside System Storage blog
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It's nice to end the year on a high note. This week, TechTarget, the folks behind [Searchstorage.com] and the [IT Knowledge Exchange] have selected to feature my blog.
Here's the link to the article: [Featured IT Blogger of the Week: Tony Pearson of Inside System Storage]
I'd like to thank all of my readers for their attention and participation, and wish everyone a happy Winter Sols See you all in 2010! Tags:  techtarget it+knowledge+exchange featured+blog |