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I've been thinking a lot about the changing landscape of female representation in the media. For better or worse, I find my daughters looking to the things they see in the movies as examples of what they can and should be in real life. Of course, I work to counteract that with less screen time, more books, more interaction with women who inspire, more time spent on discovering who they want to be instead of who they feel they should be. And yet, at the end of the day, the characters they meet in the movie theater really matter.
When the Hunger Games franchise first debuted I was so excited. I mean, a girl lead! Kicking butt! Righting wrongs! Asking complicated questions about personal responsibility! And then I saw the movies. Listen. Jennifer Lawrence is great in them. The world building is totally convincing. I even kind have a thing for cute little Peeta. Don't you want to pinch his cheeks? Both sets? (Ugh. Weird Meg. You're a grown woman. Pull it together.) Gale ain't so bad either. Neither of them really seems to move the heroine, there aren't grand sparks of connection just flickers of circumstance. Despite her relative indifference, Katniss can't stop thinking about her average men. And yet, you can almost forgive Katniss' distraction over which boy to love. I mean despite the dystopian circumstances, she is only 17 and kids that age often have their priorities a little skewed. Heck, it can be argued that the lukewarm love triangle made SOME sense when most of the moving action centered around Katniss' personal circumstances.
But in this latest installment, the war has begun. People are being firebombed. Whole towns extinguished. And the plot's pre-occupation with whether Katniss kinda likes this guy or kinda likes that one seems pretty superficial. The deep connection that would make such preoccupation valid was never established. I haven't read the books, but I'm told by my cute babysitter that the story line there is equally obsessed with young love. Which brings up a question we should all be asking of ourselves,
Are we only interested in revolutionary female leads when their story is moved along by romance – even when it is of the tepid variety?
I know, I know. Hey, Meg! It's a movie. Get over it. And I totally will. Sometime. But until then, I hope to impress upon my daughters that when engaged in the work of revolution – whether its the kind that moves governments or moves their own hearts – they are strong enough to do it without the distraction of that one boy that she kinda likes almost enough to not like that other guy. It's not much of a lesson…but its more than they'll be getting from the theaters this weekend.
Hey, watch this parody from Studio C that makes my point in a far wittier (and catchier!) manner.
Sorry, I left out the interesting bits. But I mean…check out those shoulders, amiright? (But seriously, she has really lovely shoulders.)
If you've drawn breath over the past few days, you've heard all the furor and fawning over Kim Kardashians spread (pun not intended, she kept them legs together) for Paper magazine. She and the editors of said publication have named the whole endeavor, Break the Internet, because…of course, they have. I haven't read the profile. I think it could be easily argued that most who have partaken of the pictures didn't get to the fine print, either. (Not that there couldn't be A LOT of depth there. Who am I to judge? I LOVED the first season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Confession over.) I won't be linking to the pictures here because yawwwwwwwn. For those two people that haven't viewed them, I will just say Kim K is nuded up frontways, backways and all that bare skin is shined with some hybrid of baby oil and autobody finish. For some reason, it seems like a material that would have a lot of application in the space program.
"Houston, the module won't disengage."
"Houston here, have you tried that stuff they used on Kim? That will disengage ANYTHING."
The reactions seem to run the gamut from the superficially deep (what can we learn about society by observing the actions of a woman that society observes while observing society observing) to the superficially self-righteous (That bimbo should be ashamed of herself! God is watching! PLUS! She has a husband! She has children! And cats! Why does no one ever think about the damage done to the housepets!). Of course, there is also a lot of good old-fashioned lust and LOL YOU GO, GIRL! thrown in for good measure.
And I know some of my readers expect me to write about it at length. To analyze the woman and the culture and maybe even the bottom (but seriously folks, you could bounce a whole stack of quarters off that baby). Here's the thing, though.
I just don't care.
And you shouldn't, either. Not really. Not beyond a glance, or a not glance, or a laugh or a not laugh. Because, to use internet terms here, we all only have so much bandwidth. If you use all your care on things like shiny bottoms, you will miss out on the things that really matter. And, may the saints preserve us, there are so many things that matter.
So. Five Things That Are Actually Worth Breaking the Internet Over
1. Last Weekend 12 Women in India Died After Being Given Tainted Medicine At A Sterilization Fair. In rural India, most women do not have access to birth control. In a bid to control the size of the population, the Indian government goes into these rural communities and pays women $10 (two days wages) to become sterilized. Doctors perform up to 300 sterilizations a day in abandoned clinics. In this case the women were sent home immediately after the surgery with drugs that killed them within hours. The tainted drugs are a huge problem. I would argue the deprivation that led to their use is a bigger one. You want to be sterilized? Great! But its only great if that is something you've chosen. It is not great if poverty and a lack of options for other methods of contraception forced it. Hey, here's an idea. What if we all decided to make the effort to get these women cheap (or even FREE!) birth control something we shouted about? Wouldn't that be a worthy way expenditure our voices, clicks, deeeeeep thoughts and cash?
2. The UN is discussing whether or not it should challenge the United States' right to legalize pot. Okay, okay. You got me. I don't do drugs, so why should I care? Well, it is interesting isn't it? The clash between a world body and a world power. Should outside sources be able to tell us what goes into Mike's special brownies? And if we answer "YES!" simply because we don't like pot, then what else are we answering "YES!" to in the future? The future is based on precedence and it is very possible that in defending a lil toking up now and then we are also defending greater, more personally important rights.
3. Breast Ironing is a real thing. And no one is talking about it because, like, who wants to talk about breasts that aren't all bouncy and giggly and make you feel good inside, you know? (Okay, breasts don't giggle. But you know there's a few pairs that wanna.)
4. What about this fun study from the Geena Davis Institute on female representation in film? "Girls and women are missing. There are 2.24 male characters for every female character. Only 30.9% of the speaking characters are female. China, Germany, Korea, and the UK have the highest depictions of female characters. Korea has the highest percentage of female leads or co-leads. UK films that are not co-productions with the US have a much better rate of gender parity. As the study notes, "as U.S. studio money comes in, females are pushed out." Hey. Our girls can't become what they don't see. Wanna talk about that?
5. As our government agencies become more and more isolated from the voice of the people, brutality and corruption begin to rage. The first hurt are the underprivileged, but they will not be the last. (And why aren't we shouting for the first???)
Okay, And then one as a freebie because not everything has to be the serious all the the times….
This guy's rendition of I Will Always Love You. And yeah, this video is about a million years old. And no it never gets less dreamy. And yes we should all be talking about it always. And, of course, you're welcome.
Now, let's get out there and make sure that when we break the internet we make it count.
My oldest daughter is the kind of kid that is interested in color theory, other people's emotions and the point of our existence. She'll sit in front of a sheet of math problems while happily tapping her toes through each formulation. She is so much fun and so much depth. She is also still so much five year old, her imaginary games are rich and usually feature time travel, assumed scientific theories and inventions along with some sort of princess and cackling witch. She is a real, true joy.
My oldest daughter is also the kind of kid that falls apart in the face of the unexpected. She reacts with quick and loud anger to real and perceived injustice, her righteous indignation ringing against the walls of our house and my tired heart. I'm not without perspective here. I've been around other kids, she is neither as extreme as some or as measured as others. She is squarely in the middle, not easy, not difficult, just herself. Unfortunately, comparisons and the knowledge that "this is normal!" rarely help mediate our reactions.
When she would begin to lose it, when her eyes got wild and her fists clenched, I would start to lose it, too. Oh, no. Here we go. How long will this last? Will it become hysteria or settle before its peak? If we were in public, I dreaded the side eye of other moms. If we were at home, I looked quickly at our windows to see if they were open – imagining the shrillness of her discontent bouncing against my neighbors houses. And then my panic would begin to match her own. I said mean things like, "You are being ridiculous." and "It doesn't matter." and "You are being so embarrassing." I reasoned unreasonably, angry whispered and, on occasion, yelled.
I started putting her in time-out. It seemed the only way to protect one another from spitting words. I thought it would give us both time to calm down, reflect on what we'd done (or not done) and start again. It was the perfect solution, except that it made our lives so much worse. She cried out and slammed her hands into the door of her room. She yelled and begged and then would quiet down just long enough to say things like,
"I wish you liked to be with me when I am sad."
Ugh. Damn. Kids. Am I right?
In between the ever increasing time outs, we were wary of one another. We escalated to frustration more quickly and Zuzu didn't come and talk to me in the quiet moments of the day like she used to. We were spending more time apart physically and emotionally, and not just when we needed to cool off. My plan wasn't working.
It was a particularly desperate day, I'd carried her lengthening body to time-out three times and cried twice myself. I turned on my computer and tuned out her tears. Somewhere between Facebook and my fifth buzzfeed quiz, I found an article on Time that claimed time-outs were hurting our children. I laughed a little….there's a new guru every minute. But then, after I put away my smugness, I realized that while I couldn't prove the time outs were hurting Zuzu long term, I did have circumstantial evidence that they were harming our relationship now. And if there was a way I could shape her and remain close to her – well, it was worth a try. I was so converted to the effort I even bought the book the article was based on, No Drama Discipline. It took me a few hours to read it and a few more to settle on attempting a little experiment. For seven days I would follow their recommendations to the best of my ability and see if it made a difference. If it didn't, I would always have the option of a shot of whiskey at the end of every day…naptime….snack break. (Kidding! Totally! I would never. Probably.)
The Experiment
The rules were pretty simple.
1. Taking time to connect before taking time to react. When she was freaking out because she didn't want to clean her room, hated the way dinner tasted, had her feelings hurt by the kid next door or just generally lost her bleep for no apparent reason, my first move had to be to go over and hug her. Let her know that I was there and would be there no matter what crazy antics ensued. Create a place of safety. Establishing connection would help establish more productive communication, even when the communication had to mean consequences.
2. Work to discipline, rather than punish. As the book pointed out, "discipline" comes fromt the Latin "disciplina" which means instruction, knowledge. Another word that comes from that Latin form is, "disciple" , one who is instructed, who follows. When Zuzu stepped out of line, I needed to put my focus on instruction and change of direction rather than carte blanch punishment. After connecting, move forward with instruction. Sometimes this meant consequences, cleaning up after intentional destruction, repairing relations with her sister, saying sorry, taking away tv after she lied about cleaning her room so she could watch one more show. Sometimes it just meant a really long hug and words of understanding, because don't we all just have bleep days and bleep ideas sometimes?
3. Switch Time-Outs for Time-Ins. This was the hardest and, perhaps most important, change. The theory goes that isolating your kids when they are at their worst teaches them that people will only want them when they are at their best. I can see both sides of this coin and understand that for many kids this would not be the psychological effect of time outs. I can also say this was EXACTLY how they were affecting Zuzu. I suppose her girlhood makes me especially sensitive to this topic – girls tend to be so predisposed to issues of self-worth and an unwillingness to make their voices heard. I wanted her to know I want her always and respect her voice enough to train it rather than silence it. So, when she acted out I would pull her closer. A bout of hysteria would mean a long walk together, reading a few stories or an invitation to help me with dinner. I guess it is the loving version of "keeping your enemies closer". (Oh, your kids have never felt like your enemies? Interesting. Tell me more about your amazing life.)
I set the rules into place, breathed in some courage and got down to work.
The Results
I've always said I could never be a scientist because I have no sense of consistency. That was a true statement in the carrying out of this experiment. I was the parent I wanted to be some of the time, better than I had been most of the time and just really backslid a little of the time. I will say that the days I clung to my rules we had more peace, more understanding and less chaos. It wasn't until four days into the seven that I realized she hadn't pounded on one wall yet and I hadn't yelled once. She was more thoughtful in her apologies and more thoughtful in her actions. When I sat down she started sitting next to me again and the questions that have always so entertained and instructed me started bubbling out of her mouth once more. She wasn't defensive anymore and I found myself saying the things I wished I said rather than the things I wished I hadn't said. Slowly, she began to seek alone time as an act of calming and meditation, a thing I had robbed her of by imbuing it with the colors of punishment.
By the tenth day our social experiment had turned attempted lifestyle. It was then that I finally took the time to acknowledge I needed the change as desperately as she did. When I think of ideal parenthood, I think of our Heavenly Father and Mother. When I am at my worst, they draw me in. When I am angry, they offer joy. When I am heartbroken, they succor me with the balm of infinite understanding. They would never make me weep, wail and gnash alone. They would never tell me I was unreasonable, ridiculous, acting as if I was too young. They guide, teach, heal and sanctify through the Holy Spirit. They lead and walk back to pick me up when I cannot follow. I mean, my goodness, when my mortal, mistake ridden, imperfect nature made reunion with them impossible, they did not throw their hands up in despair. They asked their Son to bleed alone in an empty garden and die, nailed to a cross, alone in a taunting crowd. They have never, they will never, shut a door in my shouting face. I'm trying to follow Their example.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend this has solved all our problems. I still find myself yelling at times. She still deals with anxiety and bouts of hysterical and regular old five year old fits of anger. We are a month past my little experiment and she has been put in time-out several times since then despite my best intentions. Hell, I put her in time-out this morning. I would still argue, despite everything I've learned, that once in awhile those time outs are absolutely needed and the only thing that saves us from each other. But, when we are at our best, when I am at MY best, I can feel us more closely emulating the relationship I know she already has with her Heavenly Parents. And while I am nowhere close to being able to even speak their names with complete understanding, I CAN see the worth they see in my little girl. And hopefully, in treating her as closely to how they treat her as I possibly can, she will begin to see that worth, too.
A re-post from a few years back when my dad was still with us.
A few months ago we made our way out to my parent's for our monthly Sunday dinner. (And by "monthly", I mean "weekly". I keep promising Riley it will get pared down to once a month. And who knows? Maybe someday it will. But probably not.) I generally know the tone of Sunday dinner at my parent's house by the smells that greet us in the entry way. Bacon frying equals a feast and good conversation. Nothing but my mom's perfume left in the hallway from her return from church equals make your own grilled cheese and good conversation.
That Sunday the house was filled with the smell of mildly sweet and onions and a hint of thyme and was that bacon? Yes, yes it was! Oh, it was going to be a good Sunday.
When I rounded the corner I found dozens and dozens of little ceramic mugs strewn across the counters. Onion skins had fallen to the floor and the big pot on the stove was empty except for a few spoonfuls of something that looked like it had been delicious.
My dad walked around the corner.
"Dad! What happened here?"
"Oh, your mom. There is a new choir director at church and she wanted to make sure he had a good turn-out for his first day. So she told everyone that if they would come to the house for choir practice she would feed them. She woke up early and made enough soup for forty people. Sixty came. Next week she says she is doing sandwiches." And here he shook his head.
I looked at the mess and shook my head, too.
The kitchen was a disaster. And the hordes of church ladies had eaten all of our food. We would be lucky to even find enough bread for the grilled cheese.
But I knew what our head shakes really meant.
We get to share our lives with a woman that invented a soup at 6 in the morning so that a new choir director could feel more welcome.
And that is something very special, indeed.
Enough-to-Feed-A-Choir Green Chile Butternut Squash Soup
Salt pork. Find it next to the ham. Rejoice.
My dad grew up in New Mexico. So we are green chile snobs. He has this stuff flown in every six months. Never fear, the canned green chile in the grocery store will do just fine. Taste it and decide how much heat you would like. My opinion? This soup is better with a little bite.
Like a meaty bouquet.
Feeds a crowd, split measurements in half for a family affair.
2 butternut squash, peeled and cut into large chunks
2 onions, cut into quarters
2 1/2 cups chopped carrots
2 salt pork, skin removed and cut into eighths
2 teaspoons thyme
2 teaspoons cumin
Green chile, I use 3/4 cup but that can make a spicy soup. Just measure out according to taste.
6 – 8 cups chicken broth, also fine to do a mix of broth and water
Salt and pepper to taste
1 ½ cups heavy cream
8 slices of thick cut bacon, cut into small pieces and fried until crisp
Chives for garnish (optional)
Wear an apron and put on some music. You are glorious and this soup will be, too.
Add chopped veggies and pork to a big ol' stockpot. Throw in the spices. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add enough broth or water until the veggies are just covered. Bring to a boil. Cover pot and lower the heat until the soup is at a lovely, rolling simmer. Simmer for 1 ½ to 2 hours or until the veggies are about falling apart and the pork is stick a fork in it tender.
Now here comes the fun part. Turn off the heat and emulsify all that juicy goodness right there in the pot. Emulsify until it is smooooooth. Slowly add cream and stir until the soup reaches desired taste and texture. I think 1 ½ cups is the perfect amount, but there is no such thing as too much cream. I will not judge you if you slip another half cup in there. Add more salt and pepper if necessary.
Ladle soup into bowls and top with a sprinkling of chives and a few pieces of that crispy bacon.
Sometimes the nature of two people in a relationship can be best illustrated by their briefest interactions. Take this morning.
Me: You know, the best thing about this haircut is that I don't have to wash my hair every day.
Riley: I would say the BEST part is that the haircut looks good. The fact that something doesn't need to be washed should never be its main selling point.
I'd say that's up for debate.


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"The tournament is not over for us," Mattar, who scored the UAE's goal in their opening 2-1 defeat by Uruguay on Thursday, told media here. "We have only finished one of our three matches. There are another two to go and if we can target all six points then we can aspire for even more.
"But first we will have to cross the first of these hurdles by winning against Team GB on Sunday."
The 30-year-old Mattar, who shot into the limelight when he was crowned MVP at the 2003 Fifa World Youth Cup hosted by the UAE, has been a mainstay of the national side in recent years. So dominant has been his presence that coach Mahdi Ali has him as his captain in the nation's debut Olympic campaign here.
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This invention is a system and method for configuring or modeling a data storage environment in accordance with workload and performance characteristics and by using correlation information regarding logical devices storing data on a data storage system in the environment.
1. A method for configuring a data storage environment including one or more data storage systems, the method comprising the steps of:
presenting a user interface;
receiving information related to workload characteristics and performance characteristics through the user interface;
analyzing the information to correlate data volumes of the one or more data volumes, the analysis comprising deriving a correlation coefficient from the information; and
using the correlation information for configuring or modeling the data storage environment.
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9. A system for configuring or modeling a data storage environment including one or more data storage systems, the system for configuring or modeling comprising:
a computer having a memory and a display;
program logic operating in memory, wherein the program logic is configured for execution of the following steps:
presenting a user interface;
receiving information related to workload characteristics and performance characteristics through the user interface;
analyzing the information to correlate data volumes of the one or more data volumes, the analysis comprising deriving a correlation coefficient from the information; and
using the correlation information for configuring or modeling a data storage environment.
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16. A program product for configuring a data storage system, the program product including a computer readable tangible medium with logic configured for causing the following computer-executed steps to occur:
presenting a user interface;
receiving information related to workload characteristics and performance characteristics through the user interface;
analyzing the information to correlate data volumes of the one or more data volumes, the analysis comprising deriving a correlation coefficient from the information; and
using the correlation information for configuring or modeling a data storage environment.
This application is a continuation-in-part of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/965,431 by William Zahavi, filed Sep. 27, 2001, and is assigned to the same assignee as this invention. Priority is hereby claimed under 35 USC 120 from the filing date of the co-pending patent application, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains command formats and other computer language listings, all of which are subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner, EMC Corporation, has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.
This invention relates generally to managing and analyzing data in a data storage environment, and more particularly to a system and method for determining workload characteristics including the profiles for such characteristics for one or more applications operating in a data storage environment.
Computer systems are constantly improving in terms of speed, reliability, and processing capability. As is known in the art, computer systems which process and store large amounts of data typically include a one or more processors in communication with a shared data storage system in which the data is stored. The data storage system may include one or more storage devices, usually of a fairly robust nature and useful for storage spanning various temporal requirements, e.g. disk drives. The one or more processors perform their respective operations using the storage system. Mass storage systems particularly those of the disk array type have centralized data as a hub of operations all driving down costs. But performance demands placed on such mass storage have increased and continue to do so.
Design objective for mass storage systems include cost, performance, and availability. Objectives typically include are a low cost per megabyte, a high I/O performance, and high data availability. Availability is measured by the ability to access data. Often such data availability is provided by use of redundancy such as well-known mirroring techniques.
One problem encountered in the implementation of disk array data storage systems concerns optimizing the storage capacity while maintaining the desired availability and reliability of the data through redundancy. It is important to allocate as closely as possible the right amount of storage capacity without going over or under significantly because of cost and necessity but this is a complex task. It has required a great deal of skill and knowledge about computers, software applications such as databases, and the very specialized field of data storage. Such requisite abilities have long been expensive and difficult to access. There remains and probably will be an increasing demand for and corresponding scarcity of such skilled people.
Determining the size and number of disk array or other data storage system needed by a customer requires information about both space, traffic and a desired quality of service. It is not sufficient to size a solution simply based on the perceived quantity of capacity desired, such as the number of terabytes believed to be adequate.
There is a long-felt need for a computer-based tool that would allow a straight-forward non-complex way to allocate proper storage capacity while balancing cost, growth plans, workload, and performance requirements. This would be advancement in the computer arts with particular relevance in the field of data storage.
Another problem that exists is the need for a automated tool that is capable of building a highly granulated sketch or profile of IO workload data collected from work on a storage system. Although workload data may be collected by prior art systems such as the ECC Workload Analyzer available from EMC Corporation of Hopkinton, the ability to particularly identify information related to variables of interest is not available on automated systems in the art. It would be an advantage if such highly resolved profile information could be either used separately or combined with the computer based tool for allocating capacity as described above.
For example, given a data storage environment wherein several hundred storage devices, e.g. hard disk drives operate in conjunction with a storage array such as the EMC Symmetrix or EMC Clariion the IO workload generated is highly complex and difficult to analyze. It would be advantageous if it could be sorted into individual applications but since the workload is distributed across many disks no tool in the prior art is capable of making such a determination. Nevertheless, it would clearly be an advancement in the computer arts, and particularly the storage arts, if a tool was capable of identifying how many business applications are active and which devices are considered to be members of these applications. By identifying these sets of devices we are able to then save signatory profiles that can later be used for graphically and visually modeling various scenarios when considering alternative configurations, such as alternative Storage Area Network (SAN) configurations. Further if the tool could do these on a relatively automated basis, such that a high-degree of computer expertise was not needed to use such a tool this would also be a significant advancement in the computer arts.
To overcome the problems described above and to provide the advantages also described above, the present invention is a system and method for using work-related data for configuring or modeling a data storage environment.
In one embodiment the method presents a user interface; receives information related to workload characteristics and performance characteristics through the user interface; and analyzes the information to correlate data volumes of the one or more data volumes; and uses the correlation information for configuring or modeling the data storage environment.
In an embodiment of the system a computer with display and memory are configured with computer-executable program logic capable of performing steps similar or identical to those described above with reference to the embodiment of the method.
In another embodiment, a program product includes a computer-readable medium having code included on the medium configured to carry out computer-executed steps that are similar or identical to those described above with reference to the embodiment of the method.
The above and further advantages of the present invention may be better under stood by referring to the following description taken into conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
The methods and apparatus of the present invention are intended for use with data storage systems, such as the Symmetrix Integrated Cache Disk Array system available from EMC Corporation of Hopkinton, Mass. Specifically, this invention is directed to a configuration method and system for storage capacity planning based on user or administrator defined workload requirements.
The methods and apparatus of this invention may take the form, at least partially, of program code (i.e., instructions) embodied in tangible media, such as floppy diskettes, CD-ROMs, hard drives, random access or read only-memory, or any other machine-readable storage medium. When the program code is loaded into and executed by a machine, such as a computer, the machine becomes an apparatus for practicing the invention. The methods and apparatus of the present invention may be embodied in the form of program code that is transmitted over some transmission medium, such as over electrical wiring or cabling, through fiber optics, or via any other form of transmission. And may be implemented such that herein, when the program code is received and loaded into and executed by a machine, such as a computer, the machine becomes an apparatus for practicing the invention. When implemented on a general-purpose processor, the program code combines with the processor to provide a unique apparatus that operates analogously to specific logic circuits.
The program code (software-based logic) for carrying out the method is embodied as part of the system described below beginning with reference to
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In a preferred embodiment the data storage system to be configured is a Symmetrix Integrated Cache Disk Arrays available from EMC Corporation of Hopkinton, Mass. However, it will be apparent to those with skill in the art that there is no limit to the use of this invention for any system including data storage. Nevertheless, regarding the preferred embodiment, such a data storage system and its implementation is fully described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,101,497 issued Aug. 8, 2000, and also in U.S. Pat. No. 5,206,939 issued Apr. 27, 1993, each of which is assigned to EMC the assignee of this invention and each of which is hereby incorporated by reference. Consequently, the following discussion makes only general references to the operation of such systems.
The data storage system 119 includes a system memory 114 and sets or pluralities 115 and 116 of multiple data storage devices or data stores. The system memory 114 can comprise a buffer or cache memory; the storage devices in the pluralities 115 and 116 can comprise disk storage devices, optical storage devices and the like. However, in a preferred embodiment the storage devices are disk storage devices. The sets 115 and 116 represent an array of storage devices in any of a variety of known configurations.
A computer or host adapter (HA) 117 provides communications between the host system 113 and the system memory 114; disk adapters (DA) 120 and 121 provide pathways between the system memory 114 and the storage device pluralities 115 and 116. Regarding terminology related to the preferred Symmetrix system, from the HA toward the computer or host is sometimes referred to as the front end (FE) and from the DA's toward the disks is sometimes referred to as the back end (BE). A bus 122 interconnects the system memory 114, the host adapters 117 and 118 and the disk adapters 120 and 121. Although not shown such a bus could be used with switches to provide discrete access to components of the system 119. Communication link 112 may provide optional access through remote data facility adapter (RDFA) 132 to remote system 111 (not shown). Remote systems and related adapters are discussed in the incorporated '497 patent.
Each system memory 114 is used by various elements within the respective systems to transfer information and interact between the respective host adapters and disk adapters. A service processor 123 may also be used in communication with system memory 114 particularly for maintenance and service needs.
Now for a better understanding of an embodiment of method steps of this invention the steps are described in detail with reference to
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Tab 504 in this example is denoted as �Disks Counting.� Information related to this tab is shown in
Screen area 580 includes fields for entering Application ID, and fields for indicating �Active Data�, �Indices,� �Logs,� and �Inactive Data.� Screen area 512 includes fields for designating the data capacity of the disk drives to be used, e.g., 18 gigabytes (GB), 36 GB, 50 GB, 73 GB, and 181 GB. Screen area 514 includes an area to enter a Performance Zone Value discussed with reference to
Screen area 516 includes a field for the user to indicate the protection scheme to be used, e.g., Raid-1, Raid-S, and Raid-0, or others not listed in the example for the sake of simplicity. Raid protection schemes are well known, but for the sake of completeness are now discussed briefly. A paper from the University of California at Berkeley and entitled �A Case For Redundant Arrays Of Inexpensive Disk (RAID)�, Patterson et al., Proc. ACM SIGMOD, June 1988, generally describes this technique. Raid-1 architecture is essentially well-known disk mirroring. In disk mirroring identical copies of data are sent to redundant or mirroring disks. Such disk redundancy provides robust protection but increases cost. On the other hand, Raid-0 provides no protection at all and adds no cost for redundancy. More advanced Raid schemes than Raid-1 provide bit striping and XOR calculations for parity checking. For example, EMC Symmetrix employs a Raid scheme known as Raid-S, wherein a parity calculation is based on an Exclusive Or (XOR) boolean logic function. The XOR instruction is used to compare binary values of two data fields. The result is then XOR'd with the binary values of data that produces resultant parity binary value. Then a Raid rebuild may use the XOR to reconstruct the missing data.
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The invention uses such information to advise a user on how to configure data storage systems having good capabilities to meet his needs, and while also considering traffic, other workload characteristics, and user defined Performance Zone Values. The invention allows for the integration of space and traffic needs of a business along with performance goals such that the resulting configuration can handle the workload in a manner that meets a desired quality of service.
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Once this ratio is established the user may attempt to determine what portion of the read activity is sequential. Sequential reads are generally almost 100% cache hits unless they come in bursts of small sequences. Again, this requires knowledge of the application or information from a Workload Library. Of the remaining reads, it is a good choice to select as a first approximation to a 25% hit rate to random read activity. A distinct IO size can be assigned to each type of IO of the business unit. Upon starting an entry for a business unit the reminder to include this work in the total summary table is done by highlighting the �Include� button 538 (
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Every time the user presses �Include� at screen area 538 (
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Based on the user activity and calculations, a summary of the IO and throughput activity is presented from the Disk Counting page in the screen area 558. The logic of the invention calculates the amount of work done on the front-end and back-end of the data storage system, in this example, the preferred Symmetrix. Using these numbers together with configuration selections the number of Symmetrix is calculated and the number and type of front-end ports is presented. The user selection begins with the Symmetrix family and model that is desired in screen area 554. Next, the user selects front-end port types in screen area 556. The results are presented in screen area 574.
These results take into consideration the performance constraints of the various components of the Symmetrix within each family, calculate the number of components requires and determine the architecture of each preferred Symmetrix model and build the required number of machines for the prescribed workload. In addition, the user is able to modify the count of ports and directors in order to accommodate other needs such as redundancy, future growth or to account for uneven distribution of work, wherein the Logic compensates by calculating a totally balanced system. The number of back-end directors is calculated based on the number of required disks. There are physical limits to the number of disks that a back-end port can accommodate, depending on the preferred Symmetrix model. Sizing here is based on the maximum number of disks allowed per port.
In the preferred embodiment, for front-end directors the constraining components are the port and the CPU. Once again, utilization is presented as the maximum of either the port or the CPU. Generally speaking there is an inverse relationship between the two with respect to utilization. Large 10 sizes dominate the port and as a result there are fewer of them and thus the utilization of the CPU is low. On the other hand, small IO sizes present the CPU with more activity but don't task the port as much. The user is able to adjust the maximum utilization level of the front end in a fashion similar to the disks.
As the number of front-end directors is calculated the value is transferred to the window in screen area 562. Here the user is able to manually add front-end directors of any type for reasons other than base performance sizing. The total of the directors in this window will then influence the total number of preferred Symmetrix systems configured.
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If it is not adjusted or adjustments are complete then in step 350 the user may enter the number of front-end directors in screen area 562. The number of ports may be assigned in step 360 also using screen area 562. The utilization of the Performance Zone may be adjusted in step 370. If either is adjusted, then processing flows back again into step 350 for repetition of steps 350�370 until the answer is �No,� in which case processing flows into step 380.
If more directors are to be added per the query of Step 380, then processing flows back once again into step 350 for repetition of steps 350�370 until the answer is �No�, in which case processing flows into step 380, and this loop is repeated until the number of directors is complete. The result is output to the user in step 390 via screen 552 (
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The user may use the data storage information in a cumulative fashion to configure storage networks using the �Storage Area Network� tab in which case other considerations including switches and gateways may also be considered (Step 404). The tool may of course include heuristic tools to adapt and learn to create solutions based on acquired processing and use. Processing ends in Step 406.
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A correlation coefficient is a quantity that gives the quality of correlation of the original data, and is also known mathematically as the product-moment coefficient of correlation or �Pearson's correlation.� It is well known mathematical principle that in a two-dimensional plot, the degree of correlation between the values on the two axes is quantified by the so-called correlation coefficient. Such a coefficient may be derived mathematically in various ways (see for example, the mathematical text Kenney, J. F. and Keeping, E. S. �Linear Regression and Correlation.� Ch. 15 in Mathematics of Statistics, Pt. 1, 3rd ed. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, pp. 252�285, 1962).
Typically, the a value of �1� for a coefficient of correlation means that the data is correlated along a straight line (i.e. highly correlated), and on the other extreme a correlation of �0� indicates no correlation, while a value in would indicate a relative degree of correlation between those two extremes.
This invention uses such correlation principles in a new and useful way to provide significant advantages for the computer arts and in particular with regard to data storage. The Workload Profiler 610 is an automated tool that correlates workload data on a storage system, as collected and saved by analyzing tool such as the ECC Workload Analyzer from EMC Corporation of Hopkinton, Mass. The workload data may be IO data, or response time, on any other metric useful for measuring work in a storage environment. IO traffic is a basic indicator of work for a logical device, and response times may be used as a metric for identifying specific problem spots and correlate these problem spots with applications thus showing root-cause to application response time problems. However, one skilled in the art should recognize that there are many metrics that may be used, some of which may not even be foreseeable presently, for correlation.
Logical devices are sometimes referred to as data volumes and generally refer to logical representations of physical volumes of data on a physical storage device. The incorporated '497 and '939 patents may be referred to further for more detail regarding such devices. Such correlated affinity groups can be stored and used to conduct trend analysis for capacity planning on a per-group basis. These same groups can also be fed back to the Workload Analyzer (e.g. ECC from EMC) and defined as a group to be used by other applications within the storage environment for advantages such as efficiency gains.
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The created so-called WP's identify the characteristics of work being performed in the data storage environment, although it is contemplated that the WP's could be prophetic or modeling types used to arrive at useful results. One novel use of created WP's is the ability to identify characteristics of work being done that is centered on a specific application, such as a software application, or a more general task performed in the data storage environment.
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The Workload Profiler 610 analyzes files collected by the Workload Analyzer in the following way, and as shown in
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An overview of an example of implementing an embodiment of the method of this invention is shown in
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A system and method has been described for using profiles and for configuring one or more data storage systems based on a number of parameters. Having described a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it may occur to skilled artisans to incorporate these concepts into other embodiments. Nevertheless, this invention should not be limited to the disclosed embodiment, but rather only by the spirit and scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
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Not fair. Although many felt as you say, many didn't. This is a prospects board at base, as you so well know (big fan of yours here) and McDonagh was a key focus of interest in reaction to the trade. For me he was the trade. I don't remember if I expressed it clearly here but my objection from the first was entirely about McDonagh. Higgins for Gomez was fair, Valentenko was a throw in ( I was very high on him myself, but he'd gone back to Russia already so he wasn't part of the future here.). McDonagh was a future core player, EXACTLY the kind of player we currently lack. I disctinctly remember hearing about the trade on the radio and storming out of the shed where I was working (long story) and yelling at my father in outrage that we'd given away a bruising, minute crunching prospect. My blood was boiling. I've since cooled a bit and given management more credit for the overall rebuild than I did in that moment, but it was the loss of McDonagh that had me outraged. Nothing else. I'm not alone in that, I suspect.
For sure. I rarely get angry over anything (probably not healthy) and even I posted 'Now I'm pissed' after McD was discovered to be involved.
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|By Roger Strukhoff
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|April 21, 2009 05:15 PM EDT
One question about the Oracle-Sun deal, not scandalous except perhaps in the eyes of IBM executives, concerns the personal relationship between Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy.
The deal, to me, shows how little power shareholders (ie, owners) of public companies really have in the face of personal relationships. I believe IBM was ready to pay a max of 9.40 per share for Sun, an offer that was vehemently castigated by Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, according to many reports.
Yet Oracle came swooping in to pay $9.50, after only four days of discussion. Of course, Sun shareholders are no doubt ecstatic about the deal, seeing their holdings quadruple from recent lows. Yet Sun's stock was hovering at about $10 before last fall's marketwide meltdown (after a 4-1 reverse split in late 2007).
What if IBM had run amok and offered an insane price like $12-13 a share for Sun? Would the market have killed IBM for this? Would Sun have been forced to accept it?
Assume that IBM had done this, with no ensuing bidding war. How does the few billion dollars premium compare to the revenue (and valuation) that IBM now risks losing against a fortified, fire-breathing Oracle? What if Oracle and HP now partner more closely? How much additional damage does this mean for IBM?
Back to my lead, back to the personal angle. McNealy and Ellison forged their apparent friendship from years of battling Microsoft. I remember self-described Libertarian McNealy testifying in front of Congress when Microsoft was in the cross-hairs of the US Justice Department, all but begging the Feds to dismantle The Borg.
The obvious business reason for the two companies to cooperate--most of Sun's server hardware is running Oracle and a large percentage of Oracle customers are on Sun--no doubt forms the basis of the relationship.
Yet, the personal angle still nags. As I noted in my previous post, John Dvorak was all over this story more than a year ago, with a column that at the time sounded paranoid but now looks to be spot-on:
McNealy was famous for his funny (if immature) jibes at Microsoft and IBM; I heard him once say that not only was Sun's approach superior to Redmond's but that "my kid is better-looking than his, too." Ouch.
Additionally, we're all aware of the seeming personal animus that drives Ellison in some of his deals, whether against competitor SAP or former competitor/subsumed Peoplesoft.
On a lighter note, one blogger, Marc Farley from 3Par, offered this hilarious custom-crafted video take on the process:
You know, satire is funny because it hits so close to the mark. Maybe Marc's video is all we need to know about this deal.
Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,887
The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,012
How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,996
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,530
The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,171
An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
Nov. 27, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,073
The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
Nov. 27, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,872
The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
Nov. 27, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,896
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
Nov. 27, 2014 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,848
Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,009
The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,058
Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 2,045
Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 2,115
"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,753
We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,705
P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
Nov. 26, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,050
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,232
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,983
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
Nov. 24, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,340
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
Nov. 24, 2014 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,210


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