Archive for the ‘Data protection’ Category
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 A couple of weeks ago I attended the spring 2013 Storage Networking World (SNW) in Orlando Florida. Talking with SNIA Chairman Wayne Adams and SNIA Director Leo Legar this was the 28th edition of the US SNW (two shows a year), plus the international ones. While ...
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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 ...
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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 Depending on whom you talk to or ask, you will get different views and opinions, some of them stronger than others on if magnetic tape is dead or alive as a data storage medium. However an aspect of tape that is alive are the discussions by those ...
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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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Monday, January 21st, 2013 In the first part of this post I showed how to use a tip from Dunacn Epping to fake VMware into thinking that a HHDD (Hybrid Hard Disk Drive) was a SSD.
Now lets look at using a tip from Dave Warburton to make an internal SATA HDD into ...
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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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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the second in a multi-part series of posts (read first post here) looking at if large enterprise and legacy storage systems are dead, along with what todays EMC VMAX 10K updates mean.
Thus on January 14 2013 it is time for a new EMC Virtual Matrix (VMAX) model ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the first in a multi-part series of posts looking at if large enterprise and legacy storage systems are dead, along with what todays EMC VMAX 10K updates means.
EMC has announced an upgrade, refresh or new version of their previously announced Virtual matrix (VMAX) 10,000 (10K), part ...
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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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Monday, January 7th, 2013 This is the second in a two-part industry trends and perspective looking at learning from cloud incidents, view part I here.
There is good information, insight and lessons to be learned from cloud outages and other incidents.
Sorry cynics no that does not mean an end to clouds, as they ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2013 This is the first of a two-part industry trends and perspectives series looking at how to learn from cloud outages (read part II here).
In case you missed it, there were some public cloud outages during the recent Christmas 2012-holiday season. One incident involved Microsoft Xbox (view ...
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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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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 It is late in the day December 12, 2012 and best I can tell, we are still here, and for some, by time you read this it will be a few days or weeks later which means that either the Mayan calendar had it wrong, or we misinterpret it. Some ...
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