Archive for the ‘Data security’ Category
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 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 ...
Posted in backup, BC and DR, big data, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, DCIM, Education, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, news, object storage, Performance and Capacity, perspective, Poll, post, Power and Cooling, server, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 11 Comments »
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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Monday, November 26th, 2012 Recently while I was in Europe presenting some sessions at conferences and doing some seminars, I was invited by Ed Saipetch (@edsai) of Inktank.com to attend the first Ceph Day in Amsterdam.
As luck or fate would turn out, I was in Nijkerk which is about an hour train ride from Amsterdam central ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2012 Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement) is a book written Eric Redmond (@coderoshi) and Jim Wilson (@hexlib), part of The Pragmatic Programmers (@pragprog) series that takes a look at several non SQL based database systems.
Coverage includes PostgreSQL, Riak, Apache HBase, ...
Posted in big data, book review, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data protection, Data security, database, Education, I/O Networking, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, little data, object storage, Performance and Capacity, perspective, post, programming, server, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 8 Comments »
Saturday, November 24th, 2012 Normally solid state devices (SSD) including non-persistent DRAM, and persistent nand flash are thought of in the context of performance including bandwidth or throughput, response time or latency, and IOPS or transactions. However there is another role where SSD are commonly used where the primary focus is not performance. ...
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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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Saturday, October 27th, 2012 Now also available via
This is the seventh (here is the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth) in a series of StorageIO industry trends and perspective audio blog and pod cast discussions from Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall 2012 in Santa Clara California.
Given how at conference conversations tend to ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2012 This is the third (here is the first and the second) in a series of StorageIO industry trends and perspective audio blog and pod cast discussions from Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall 2012 in Santa Clara California.
Given how at conference conversations tend to occur in the hallways, lobbies and bar ...
Posted in backup, big data, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, Education, fun, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, news, perspective, pod cast, server, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, Travel, virtualization | 2 Comments »
Saturday, October 6th, 2012 This is the second of two posts (here is the first post) that are part of ongoing industry trends and perspectives cloud conversations series that looks at Dell and their cloud strategy story.
So what does the first post have to do with Dell having a cloudy cloud strategy story?
Simple, ...
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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, ...
Posted in announcement, backup, big data, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, Education, food, Green, Green IT, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, news, Performance and Capacity, perspective, Power and Cooling, server, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, Travel, virtualization | 16 Comments »
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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