Archive for the ‘Green IT’ Category
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 It is still early in 2013, so I can make some cloud, virtualization, storage and IO related predictions, or more aptly, talk about some trends, in addition to those that I made in late 2012, looking forward and back. Common over-riding themes will continue to include ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 Sometimes what should be understood, or that is common sense or that you think everybody should know needs to be stated. After all, there could be somebody who does not know what some assume as common sense or what others know for various reasons. At ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 2012 was a busy year (it was our 7th year in business) along with plenty of activity on StorageIOblog.com as well as on the various syndicate and other sites that pickup our content feed (http://storageioblog.com/RSSfull.xml).
Excluding traditional media venues, columns, articles, web casts and web site visits (StorageIO.com and StorageIO.TV), StorageIO ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 Last week Imation, the company that is known for making CDs, DVDs, magnetic tape and in the past floppy disk (diskettes) bought Nexsan, a company known for the SATA and SAS storage products.
Imation is also (or should be) owns the TDK and Memorex names (remember is ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 December 2012 News letter
Welcome to the December 2012 year end edition of the StorageIO Update news letter including a new format and added content.
You can get access to this news letter via various social media venues (some are shown below) in addition to StorageIO web sites ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2012 There are many business drivers and technology reasons for adopting data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and infrastructure Resource Management (IRM) techniques, tools and best practices. Today's agile data centers need updated management systems, tools, and best practices that allow organizations to plan, run at a low-cost, ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2012 Following a busy spring and summer schedule, the fall 2012 StorageIO out and about activities are underway including events on both the European and North American continents.
In addition to in person events, there are also some virtual activities including live and recorded video and audio sessions, ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 My how time flies, seems like just yesterday (back in 2008) that I did a piece titled Politics and Storage, or, storage in an election year V2.008 and if you are not aware, it is 2012 and thus an election year in the U.S. as well as in many other ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012 I'm always interested when I hear or read a software vendor or their value added reseller (VAR) or business partner claim that their solution eliminates vendor lock-in. More often than not, I end up being amazed if not amused over the claims which usually should be rephrased as eliminating hardware ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 In case you missed it, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced their cloud services (Elastic Cloud Compute or EC2) along with storage offerings. These include Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Simple Storage Service (S3). Enhancements include new functionality along with availability or reliability in the ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2012 How much flash (or DRAM) based Solid State Device (SSD) do you want or need?
IBM recently took a flash step announcing it wants and needs more SSD capabilities in different packaging and functionality capabilities to meet the demands and opportunities of customers, business partners and prospects by acquiring Texas ...
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Saturday, August 18th, 2012 The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has announced and published more documents for data center customers of cloud usage. These new cloud usage models for to address customer demands for interoperability of various clouds and services before for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) among other topics which are ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2012 Is your company, organization or one that you are a fan of, or represent listed on the StorageIO industry links page (click here to learn more about it).
The StorageIO industry links page has been updated with over thousand different industry related companies, vendors, vars, trade groups, component and solution suppliers ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2012 Keeping in mind that there is no such thing as a data or information recession, not to mention that people and data are living longer, there is the need to discuss expanding data footprints. When researching his new article over on SearchSolidstateStorage.com John Hilliard reached out to ...
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