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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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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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, 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 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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Thursday, August 4th, 2011 Lets face it, people and information are living longer and thus there are more of each along with a strong interdependency by both.
People living and data being retained longer should not be a surprise, take a step back and look at the bigger picture. There is no such thing as ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011 Here is a link to an interview that I did providing industry trends, perspectives and commentary on how Network Attached Storage (NAS) aka file and data sharing for the Small Medium Business (SMB), Small Office Home Office (SOHO) and consumer or low end offerings are gaining features and functionality traditionally ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011 Lets start out by clarifying something, that is in terms of context or scope, big means storage capacity as opposed to the physical packaging size of a hard disk drive (HDD) which are getting smaller.
So are HDDs in terms of storage capacity getting too big?
This question of if HDDs ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011 Removable hard disk drives (RHDD) are a form of removable media which includes magnetic tape that address many common use cases. Usage scenarios include enabling bulk data portability for larger environments or for D2D backup where the media needs to be physically moved offsite for small and mid sized environments. ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2011 Spring 2011 Newsletter
Welcome to the Spring 2011 edition of the Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO) newsletter. This follows the Winter 2011 edition.
You can access this news letter via various social media venues (some are shown below) in addition to StorageIO web sites and subscriptions.
Click on the following ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2011 On a lighter note.
For those who follow or are involved with data storage religiously with a passion, then this is for you. As for others who do not get or understand what this is about, just ask those who are devout data storage followers.
Now I lay my data to sleep
I ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 Here is a link to a recent guest post that I was invited to do over at The Virtualization Practice (TVP) pertaining to Self Encrypting Disk (SEDs).
Based on the trusted computing group (TCG) DriveTrust and OPAL disk drive security models, SEDs offload encryption to the disk drive while ...
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011 What records will EMC break in NYC January 18, 2011?
In case you have not seen or heard, EMC is doing an event next week in New York City (NYC) at the AXA Equitable Center winter weather snow storm clouds permitting (and adequate tools or technologies to deal with the snow ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Have you heard or read the reports and speculation that VTLs (Virtual Tape Libraries) are dead?
It seems that in IT the all to popular trend is to declare something dead so that your new product or technology can have a chance of making it in to the ...
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