Talking about IBM storage products and logging amongst other things
ARMONK, N.Y. - 21 Apr 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new storage products — part of its 2010 lineup of workload-optimized systems — that are designed to reduce the cost and complexity of storing vast amounts of data while making it easier for clients to apply analytics and gain insight from the data.
Driven by a rapidly growing pool of sensors and gadgets that are digitizing information, the world’s data already vastly exceeds available storage space — yet enterprise demand for storage capacity worldwide continues to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 43% from 2008-2013 (1). Companies and governments need to better prioritize and classify their data so they can analyze and extract intelligence from it, but at the same time need to reduce the complexity and cost of storing and protecting vital information.
Certainly storage remains an area of interest for many CIOs, both in terms of the cost and the rate of consumption, comments like deduplication being turned on are being seen as a solution for the time being. I wonder though if we don’t need to start looking at application architecture and the infrastructure in the same light, linking what it is the application needs combined with what we are able to facilitate, even more so as we look at cloud, at virtualization of the infrastructure and the application. Writing log files which are 30MB a day is fine in the olden days world providing we have the archiving and restore policies around that, going forward though what level of logging do we need and can we not build that logging into the existing monitoring platform, so we have 48 hours of online logs, everything else is archived on to lower cost, less available platforms to reduce cost and unnecessary online data?
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