Thursday, April 21st, 2011 Let me keep this simple, efficient and effective, Happy Earth Day 2011 April 22, 2011.
Be smart, practical, conscious, aware, recycle, cut down on waste, work smarter and more effective.
Ok, nuff said for now, go hug a tree, your computer, hybrid car, droid, ipad, spouse, partner, kid, dog, cat or whatever ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 Its been almost a month since my last post and want to say hello and let you know what I have been doing.
What I have been doing is:
Accumulating a long list of ideas for upcoming blog post, article, tips, webinars and other content.
Recording some podcasts, web casts doing ...
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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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Monday, January 3rd, 2011 I recently did an interview with the folks over at Infortrend (a RAID storage company) discussing various industry trends and perspectives including RAID, data footprint reduction (DFR) as well as Green IT including how the Green Gap.
The Green Gap is the disconnect between common messaging around carbon and environment vs. ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010 Here are some items that have been added to the main StorageIO website news, tips and articles, video podcast related pages that pertain to a variety of topics ranging from data storage, IO, networking, data centers, virtualization, Green IT, performance, metrics and more.
These content items include various odds and end ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010 I recently asked for and received from Seagate (See recent post about them moving their paper head quarters to Ireland here) a Momentus XT 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5 Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (HHDD) to use in an upcoming project. That project is not to test a bunch of ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 Here in the northern hemisphere it is late April and thus mid spring time.
That means the trees sprouting their buds, leaves and flowering while other plants and things come to life.
In Minnesota where I live, there is not a cloud in the sky today, the sun is out and ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 There are many different aspects of Green IT along with several myths or misperceptions not to mention missed opportunities.
There is a Green Gap or disconnect between environmentally aware, focused messaging and core IT data center issues. For example, when I ask IT professionals whether they ...
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Monday, January 25th, 2010 CCSE Facility and Seminar Series
This past week I had the honor of delivering a keynote presentation in San Diego at the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) as part of their continuing education and community outreach and education, workshop and seminar series. The theme ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010 2011 is not a typo, I figured that since Im getting caught up on some things, why not get a jump as well.
Since 2009 went by so fast, and that Im finally getting around to doing an obligatory 2010 predictions post, lets take a look at both 2010 ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Following up on a recent previous post pertaining to US EPA Energy Star(r) for Servers, Data Center Storage and Data Centers, there will be a workshop held Tuesday February 2, 2010 in San Jose, CA.
Here is the note (Italics added by me for clarity) from the folks ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009 Following up on previous posts pertaining to US EPA Energy Star for Servers, Data Center Storage and Data Centers, here is a note received today with some new information. For those interested in the evolving Energy Star for Data Center, Servers and Storage, have a look at the following as ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 There is a ton of discussion, stories, articles, videos, conferences and blogs about the benefits and value proposition of cloud computing. Not to mention, discussion or debates about what is or what is not a cloud or cloud product, service or architecture including some perspectives and ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Some vendors are doing better than others and first generation MAID (Massive or monolithic Array of Idle Disks) might be dead or about to be deceased, spun down or put into a long term sleep mode, it is safe to say that second generation MAID (e.g. ...
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