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 ...
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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 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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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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Saturday, November 24th, 2012 Do you know the computer technology saying, garbage data in results in garbage information out?
In other words even with the best algorithms and hardware, bad, junk or garbage data put in results in garbage information delivered. Of course, you might have data analysis and cleaning software 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 ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2012 Have you modernized your data protection strategy and environment?
If not, are you thinking about updating your strategy and environment?
Why modernize your data protection including backup restore, business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategy and environment?
Is it to leverage new technology such as ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2012 Speaking of and about modernizing data protection, back in June I was invited to be a keynote presenter on industry trends and perspectives at a series of five dinner events (Boston, Chicago, Palo Alto, Houston and New York City) sponsored by Quantum (that is a disclosure btw). ...
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 For those not familiar with Quest, they are a software company not to be confused with the telephone communications company formerly known as Qwest (aka now known as centurylink).
Both Dell and Quest have been on software related acquisition initiatives that past few years with Quest having purchased vKernel, ...
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Monday, June 4th, 2012 Some of you might remember the saying from Smokey the bear, only you can prevent forest fires and for those who do not know about that, click on the image below.
The reason I bring this up is that while cloud providers are responsible (see the cloud blame game) is ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012 Spring (May) 2012 News letter
Welcome to the Spring (May) 2012 edition of the Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO) news letter. This follows the Fall (December) 2011 edition.
You can get access to this news letter via various social media venues (some are shown below) in addition to StorageIO web ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2012 A quick note of congratulations to all the new as well as too my fellow returning 2012 VMware vExperts from around the world.
Here is a link listing the 2012 VMware vExperts including how you can follow them on twitter if you are interested in virtualization, cloud, data and storage networking ...
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