Archive for the ‘IT Industry Activity’ Category

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 ...

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 ...

Dave Demming talking tech education from SNW Spring 2013

Wednesday, April 17th, 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 ...

HDS Claus Mikkelsen talking storage from SNW Fall 2012

Wednesday, April 17th, 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 ...

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 ...

Farley Flies into SNW Spring 2013

Sunday, April 7th, 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 ...

Talking with Tony DiCenzo at SNW Spring 2013

Sunday, April 7th, 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 ...

SNIA Spring 2013 update with Wayne Adams

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 ...

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 ...

Conversation with Justin Stottlemyer of Shutterfly and object storage discussion

Thursday, April 4th, 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 ...