Favourite sites and blogs for Storage

staggerlee

Hi all,

Trying to gather more knowledge on the old storage side of things.

What are peoples favourite sites and blogs to keep up to date/ learn about new things storage related?

Thanks

S

astorrs

These are the storage related blogs I follow currently (it changes now and then):

50Micron.com - Jesse Gilleland
ApplyIT - Vince Westin
Around the Storage Block - Calvin Zito
Backup Central - W. Curtis Preston
Brian's Power Windows Blog - Brian Henderson
Chuck's Blog - Chuck Hollis
Dave Graham's Weblog - Dave Graham
Dave's Blog - David Hitz
Drunken Data.com - Jon Toigo
Error404 - Phillip R. Jaenke
Exposed Blog - Val Bercovici
File Cabinet Blog - File Storage Team at Microsoft
GestaltIT - Various
GrumpyStorage - Ian Foster
Hu's Blog - Hu Yoshida
iKnerd - Greg Knieriemen
Ruptured Monkey - Ron Singler
Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat - Stephen Foskett
Storagebod's Blog - Martin Glassborow
StorageIO - Greg Schulz
StorageMojo - Robin Harris
StorageNerve - Devang Panchigar
StorageRap - Marc Farley
Storagezilla - Mark Twomey
Technical Deep Dive - Nigel Poulton
The Backup Blog - Scott Waterhouse
The NetWorker Blog - Preston de Guise
The SAN Technologist - Steven J. Schwartz
The Storage Anarchist - Barry A. Burke
The Storage Architect - Chris M. Evans
The Virtual Storage Guy - Vaughn Stewart
Virtualutopia - Scott Baker

I didn't include any of the aggregation/news sites as they don't usually interest me and you can probably sniff those out yourself. There are a number of other bloggers who cover storage as part of their virtualization/sysadmin work, etc., but I haven't included those as they're scattered throughout different folders in my RSS reader.

Also you should subscibe to the (usually) weekly Infosmack Podcast hosted by Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley. They cover a lot of what's going on in the land of storage, as well as other interesting things afoot in the world of Enterprise IT).

Hopefully you (and perhaps others here) find this list useful.

staggerlee

exellent list astorrs..

i will look though them when i can today

Thanks

SteveO86

Excellent post. I've been looking for some extra info on storage.

TechStriker

Thanks, this is great info and very userful

thulasi39

Thanks for the very useful info.

jfortenbaugh

I recently started working with SAN technology and VMWare and am in need of great resources to learn this technology. It all seems a bit overwhelming. Are there any of those "... for dummies" books out there for these? Ok, I'm joking, sort of...lol. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

astorrs

jfortenbaugh wrote: »

I recently started working with SAN technology and VMWare and am in need of great resources to learn this technology. It all seems a bit overwhelming. Are there any of those "... for dummies" books out there for these? Ok, I'm joking, sort of...lol. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

To be honest the Storage Area Networks for Dummies book is actually a great place to start; name aside, it's one of the best introductions to the subject (and I usually hate the For Dummies books).

After reading that and getting the basics (should be a fairly quick paced read), move onto EMC's book Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information as it dives into the material to a greater depth and uses their products as examples (while trying to remain vendor agnostic).

In keeping in-line with the theme of these forums, the ISM book also happens to be an excellent study guide for the EMC Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) certification exam or the SNIA Storage Network Foundations (SCSP) exam.

Hope that helps and good luck!