Tommy Trogden

Greetings and welcome back to my blog!I think I'm starting to get the hang of this! Hopefully you will agree! In my blog post titled Performance Starved Applications we specifically zeroed in on those storage array vendors whose best practice is to keep their systems below a certain utilization rate for performance reasons. If you recall, I mentioned that in our Emprise product line, using ISE technology, we do not have these issues.  Not only can you use more than the industry standard 75%, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO RUN IT AT 95%% FULL!!!!  Heresy I know!!  We are such rebels over here! Let me give you some more food for thought on why this should be important to you.  Why should you pay for the 25% capacity you don't use?  This is only a big deal if you don't have an unlimited budget .  Many times a prospective storage buyer just zero's in on the upfront costs which in m... (more)

My 10 years with Xiotech

WOW!! I’m very proud to say that today is my 10 year anniversary with Xiotech.  What an awesome ride this has been.  In those 10 years I’ve had an opportunity to work with some brilliant people.  Some of them are still here at Xiotech, others have moved on to other endeavors, but each one has made an impact both professionally and personally on me. It just seems like it was just yesterday, sitting in the Minneapolis Decathlon Club Hotel (I think it’s a water park now ) overwhelmed with a sense of “wow, this is soooo cool”, as well as thinking “Crap, I hope they don’t realize I h... (more)

Xiotech Rocking in 2010

Whew!!  The last 2 weeks have just been CRAZY!!!  I thought I would do a quick re-cap of the events.  On January 8th, I celebrated my 10year anniversary with Xiotech by launching www.StorageTexan.Com and posting my first blog.  It was a great opportunity to walk down memory lane.  I really enjoy blogging and hope to be able to keep it up.  January 10th, I flew out to Las Vegas to attend the Xiotech National Sales meeting.  WOW, what a great time!!  It’s always cool to hang out with all the Xiotech’ers.  I have to say, Alan Atkinson is doing a fantastic job.  What he’s done in h... (more)

How to Design a Scale Out NAS Architecture

Scale-out architecture and why it is important when architecting a storage solution. I had an interesting discussion with an architectural firm the other day.  Most of the discussion was around scaling for the future.  In our discussion we talked about the linear scalability of the ISE technology and he pointed out that while that made a ton of sense for his block-access requirements he was a little concerned around the unstructured data, as well as some plans utilizing NFS for some of his server and desktop virtualization needs.  The last thing he wanted to worry about was chan... (more)

Xiotech ISE Analyzer

In April 2010 Xiotech launched our CorteX (RESTful) architecture and one of the first things we rolled out to show the power of RESTful was our iPhone/iPad monitoring app.  It was a great success and really spoke to the power of a simple, easy to write to, open architecture.  We then took it to the next level and created a website www.CorteXDeveloper.com and encouraged people to sign up and participate.  So what’s next? The thing we hear most in the storage industry is the need for robust reporting tools for the array’s these customers are running.  With that said, we created a ... (more)