Friday, June 3rd, 2011 Some IT industry buzz this week is around continued speculation (or here) of who will Dell buy next and will it be Brocade.
Brocade was mentioned as a possible acquisition by some in the IT industry last fall after Dell stepped back from the 3PAR bidding war with HP. Industry rumors ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011 Here is an article by Drew Robb over at Enterprise Storage Forum about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and its state of adoption. Drews article includes comments and perspectives from myself around where FCoE is going and why it is on a long road and not a sprint for a ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 With networking, care should be taken to understand if a given speed or performance capacity is being specified in bits or bytes as well as in base 2 (binary) or base 10 (decimal).
Another consideration and potential point of confusion are line rates (GBaud) and link speed which ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011 Despite having been repeatedly declared dead at the hands of some new emerging technology over the past several decades, the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) continues to evolve as it moves towards its 60th birthday.
More recently HDDs have been declared dead due to flash SSD that according to some predictions, should ...
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010 Over in Eden Prairie (Minneapolis Minnesota suburb) where data storage vendor Compellent (CML) is based, they must be singing in the hallways today that it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.
Sure we had another dusting of snow this morning here in the Minneapolis area ...
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Friday, September 17th, 2010 This is part of an ongoing series of short industry trends and perspectives blog posts briefs based on what I am seeing and hearing in my conversations with IT professionals on a global basis.
These short posts compliment other longer posts along with traditional industry trends and ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010 August 2010 Newsletter
Welcome to the August Summer Wrap Up 2010 edition of the Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO) newsletter. This follows ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010 No sooner has the dust settled from Dells other recent acquisitions, its back to school shopping time and the latest bargain for the Round Rock Texas folks is bay (San Francisco) area storage vendor 3PAR for $1.15B. As a refresh, some of Dells more recent acquisitions ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 This is part of an ongoing series of short industry trends and perspectives blog posts briefs.
These short posts compliment other longer posts along with traditional industry trends and perspective white papers, research reports, solution brief content found at www.storageio.com/reports.
Two years ago we read about how the magnetic ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 This is part of an ongoing series of short industry trends and perspectives blog posts briefs.
These short posts compliment other longer posts along with traditional industry trends and perspective white papers, research reports, solution brief content found at www.storageio.com/reports.
There is continued concern about how long large capacity ...
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Monday, May 10th, 2010 In a flurry of announcements that coincide with EMCworld occurring in Boston this week of May 10 2010 EMC officially unveiled the Virtual Storage vision initiative (aka twitter hash tag of #emcvs) and initial VPLEX product. The Virtual Storage initiative was virtually previewed ...
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010 Seagate (NASDQ: STX) corporation, the parent of the company many people in IT and data storage in particular know as Seagate the disk drive manufacturer is moving their paper headquarters from the Cayman Islands where they have been based since 2000 to Ireland. ...
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010 For consumers, the time leading up to the holiday Christmas season is usually busy including door busters as well as black Friday among other specials for purchasing gifts and other items. However savvy shoppers will wait for after Christmas or the holidays altogether perhaps well into the ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010 Granted it is winter in the northern hemisphere and thus snow storms should not be a surprise.
However between December 2009 and early 2010, there has been plenty of record activity from in the U.K. (or here), to the U.S. east coast including New York, Boston and Washington DC, across the ...
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