Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 February 2013 News letter
Welcome to the February 2013 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 and subscriptions. ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the third in a multi-part series of posts (read first post here and second post here) looking at what else EMC announced today in addition to an enhanced VMAX 10K and dispelling the myth that large storage arrays are dead (or at least for now).
In addition to the ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 The past several weeks have been busy with various merger, acquisitions and collaborating activity in the IT and data storage world. Summer time often brings new relationships and even summer marriages. The most recent is EMC and Lenovo announcing a new partnership that includes OEM sourcing ...
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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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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 Recently I was asked by Dell to moderate and host their North America storage customer advisory panel (CAP) session (twitter #storagecap) that followed their 2012 storage forum (see comments about 2011 storage forum here) event in Boston (Disclosure Dell covered my trip to Boston).
This was an interesting event in many ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the fourth in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what does this mean for IBM Business Partners (BPs) and ISVs?
What could very well differentiate IBM PureSystems from those of other competitors ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the fifth in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here.
So what about vendor or technology lock in?
So who is responsible for vendor or technology lock in? When I was working in IT organizations, (e.g. ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the third in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what about the IBM Virtual Appliance Factory?
Where PureFlex and PureApplication (PureSystems) are the platforms or vehicles for enabling your journey to efficient and effective ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the second in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what are the speeds and feeds of a PureFlex system?
The components that make up the PureFlex line include:
IBM management ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the first in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the next post here.
For a certain generation of IBM faithful or followers the recently announced PureFlex and PureApplication systems might give a sense of DejaVu perhaps even causing some to ...
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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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Thursday, September 8th, 2011 Technically here in the northern hemisphere it is still summer, so there is another summer wedding to announce.
The other day Hitachi Data Systems (aka HDS) announced that they finally tied the knot buying their Network Attached Storage (NAS) partner BlueArc whom they have been in a OEM premarital arrangement for ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 Summer 2011 Newsletter
Welcome to the Summer 2011 edition of the Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO) newsletter. This follows the Spring 2011 edition.
You can get access to this news letter via various social media venues (some are shown below) in addition to StorageIO web sites and subscriptions.
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Monday, July 11th, 2011 About a month ago I was invited by Dell to make a quick trip down to Orlando to attend the Dell Storage Forum 2011 (e.g. twitter #dellsf11). Given that on Tuesday June 7th Minneapolis was having a heat wave with 100 degree (F) temperatures, it was actually cooler in Orlando.
Make ...
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