Olocity Blog

As those with IT responsibilities attempt to balance increased demands with increased costs, the topic of open source software (OSS) usually enters the conversation. However, this very familiar term is still wrapped in a high degree of misunderstanding and vendor hype. This paper will cover the best practices necessary for identifying the need for open source, evaluating open source options and integrating solutions based on standards like Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI).

Our team has been dealing with storage and storage standards for quite a while and took on the Cortex challenge. Could we actually develop, manage and monitor a Xiotech ISE using a proprietary API and do it quickly? The challenge was incorporating Xiotech’s cortex REST implementation within our systems management application, StorageIM. Could we perform [...]

Olocity has been doing quite a bit of end-user listening, research and development in the past few months with our StorageIM product, specifically performance monitoring capabilities. We found that end-users did not have the performance visibility they required to make suitable decisions regarding their hardware and fabric. The challenge from our perspective is determining from [...]

I’ve been getting some end-user emails lately regarding StorageIM and the inclusion of performance monitoring. Because our road map is based on end-user feedback, ask and receive. These emails however were quite telling as to where storage monitoring is in general. So the bad news is some end-users have serious issues with their storage vendors [...]