Monday, December 3rd, 2012 HP has been talking and promoting for several weeks (ok, months) their upcoming December 3rd storage announcements from the HP discovery event in Frankfurt Germany.
Well its now afternoon which means the early Monday morning December 3rd embargos have been lifted so I can now talk about what HP shared last ...
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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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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 This is a follow-up to a recent post about modernizing data protection and doing more than simply swapping out media or mediums like flat tires on a car as well as part of the Quantum protecting data with certainty event series.
As part of a recent 15 city event series sponsored ...
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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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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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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 Spring 2012 StorageIO traveling out and about events are underway with activities already having occurred in New York City along with several online live and recorded web casts that you can find here and here. Other upcoming events and traveling to various venues include Dallas (SNW), San ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 With March 31st as world backup day, hopefully some will keep recovery and restoration in mind to not be fooled on April 1st.
When it comes to protecting data, it may not be a headline news disaster such as earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane or act of man, rather something as ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 A news story about the school board in Marshall Missouri approving data storage plans in addition to getting good news on health insurance rates just came into my in box.
I do not live in or anywhere near Marshall Missouri as I live about 420 miles north ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011 Im in the process of wrapping up 2011 and getting ready for 2012. Here is a list of the top 25 all time posts from StorageIOblog covering cloud, virtualization, servers, storage, green IT, networking and data protection. Looking back, here is 2010 and 2011 industry trends, thoughts and ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011 2011 is almost over, so its wrap up time of the year as well as getting ready for 2012.
Here is a link to a post of the top 25 new posts that appeared on StorageIOblog in 2011.
As a companion to the above, here is a link to the all ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011 Im in the process of wrapping up 2011 and getting ready for 2012, here is a list of the top 25 new posts from this past year at StorageIOblog.
Looking back, here is a post about industry trends, thoughts and perspective predictions for 2010 and 2011 (preview 2012 and 2013 ...
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 Drew Robb has a good article about what IT industry pundits including vendors, analysts, and advisors loath including comments from myself.
In the article Drew asks: What do you really love about storage and what are your pet peeves?
One of my comments and perspectives is that I like Hybrid ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 Rather than doing a bunch of separate posts, here is a collection of different perspectives and commentary on various IT and data storage industry activity.
In this link are comments and perspectives regarding thin provisioning including how it works as well as when to use it for optimizing storage space capacity. ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 I recently came across a piece by Carl Brooks over at IT Tech News Daily that caught my eye, title was Cloud Storage Often Results in Data Loss. The piece has an effective title (good for search engine: SEO optimization) as it stood out from many others ...
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