Archive for the ‘announcement’ Category

IBM buys Softlayer, for software defined infrastructures and clouds?

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

IBM today announced that they are acquiring privately held Dallas Texas-based Softlayer and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. IBM is referring to this as Cloud without Compromise (read more about clouds, conversations and confidence here). It's about the management, flexibly, scale up, out and down, agility and valueware. Is ...

Web chat Thur May 30th: Hot Storage Trends for 2013 (and beyond)

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

Join me on Thursday May 30, 2013 at Noon ET (9AM PT) for a live web chat at the 21st Century IT (21cit) site (click here to register, sign-up, or view earlier posts). This will be an online web chat format interactive conversation so if you are not able ...

May 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

May 2013 News letter Welcome to the May 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. This edition has announcement analysis of EMC ViPR, Software Defined Storage (including a video here), server, storage and I/O metrics that matter for example how many IOPS can a HDD do (it ...

FusionIO (FIO) SSD vendor CEO out in a flash, whats up with that?

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

FusionIO (FIO) who recently bought Nexgen to expand their reach from just a server centric to a more broad flash focus has seen their CEO and founder David Flynn race out the door. Not surprisingly, wall street who does not like to be surprised were ...

EMC ViPR software defined object storage part III

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

This is part III in a series of posts pertaining to EMC ViPR software defined storage and object storage. You can read part I here and part II here. More on the object opportunity Other object access includes OpenStack storage part Swift, AWS S3 HTTP and REST API ...

EMC ViPR software defined object storage part II

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

This is part II in a series of posts pertaining to EMC ViPR software defined storage and object storage. You can read part I here and part III here. Some questions and discussion topics pertaining to ViPR: Whom is ViPR for? Organizations that need to scale with stability across EMC, third-party ...

EMC ViPR virtual physical object and software defined storage (SDS)

Monday, May 6th, 2013

Introducing EMC ViPR This is the first in a three part series, read part II here, and part III here. During the recent EMCworld event in Las Vegas among other things, EMC announced ViPR (read announcement here) . Note that this ViPR is not the same EMC Viper project ...

April 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter

Monday, April 29th, 2013

April 2013 News letter Welcome to the April 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. This edition includes more on nand flash SSD, after all its not if, rather when, where, why, with what along with how much SSD is in your future. Also more on ...

Introducing Josh Apter and the Padcaster from NAB 2013

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Now also available via This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content here) as well as listening via iTunes or via your preferred means using this RSS feed ...

HP Moonshot 1500 software defined capable compute servers

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Riding the current software defined data center (SDC) wave being led by the likes of VMware and software defined networking (SDN) also championed by VMware via their acquisition of Nicira last year, Software Defined Marketing (SDM) is in full force. HP being a player in providing the core building blocks ...

SNIA’s new SPDEcon conference

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Now also available via This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content here) as well as listening via iTunes or via your preferred means using this RSS feed ...

Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) BMW Private Cloud Strategy

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

If your organization like StorageIO is a member of the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) you may be aware of the resources they make available about cloud, virtualization, security and more. Unlike so many other industry associates or trade groups dominated by vendors, the ODCA has an IT or ...

Are your analyst, blogger, media or press requests being read?

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

Are you a marketing or public relations, press or analyst relations or social media expert and your email messages, notes, updates or requests get overlooked? Are you in the first paragraph or couple of sentences indicating who you are representing, what the info or request is about as well as what ...

A Pivotal or cloudy moment for EMC and VMware?

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

EMC and VMware (who is majority owned by EMC) have announced a new joint initiative called Pivotal (read more here and here) as part of their software defined data center strategies and architecture. Is this a pivotal moment for both EMC and VMware signaling that they will be going ...