Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 Yesterday VMware announced that it is acquiring the IO performance optimization and acceleration software vendor Virsto for an undisclosed amount.
Some may know Virsto due to their latching and jumping onto the Storage Hypervisor bandwagon as part of storage virtualization and virtual storage. On the ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2012 Is your company, organization or one that you are a fan of, or represent listed on the StorageIO industry links page (click here to learn more about it).
The StorageIO industry links page has been updated with over thousand different industry related companies, vendors, vars, trade groups, part and solution suppliers ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2012 A quick note of congratulations to all the new as well as too my fellow returning 2012 VMware vExperts from around the world.
Here is a link listing the 2012 VMware vExperts including how you can follow them on twitter if you are interested in virtualization, cloud, data and storage networking ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 Here is a link to a recent guest post that I was invited to do over at The virtualization Practice (TVP) pertaining to the recent VMware vSphere 5.0 announcement. A theme of the vSphere 5.0 launch is reducing complexity, enabling automation, and supporting scaling with confidence for cloud and virtual ...
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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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Sunday, June 5th, 2011 For those who have read any of my previous posts, seen some of my articles, news letters, videos, pod casts, web casts or in person appearances you may have heard that I have a new book coming out this summer.
Here in the northern hemisphere its summer (well technically the ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011 This is the third in a series of posts that I have done about Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDDs) along with pieces about Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Solid State Devices (SSDs). Granted the HDD received its AARP card several years ago when it turned 50 and is routinely declared ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011 Given the buzz about big data and conversations or confusion around clouds along with virtualizing virtually anything possible, Green IT has fallen off the Buzzword Bingo Bandwagon.
Green IT like so many other buzzwords and trends typically go through a hype cycle before getting tired, worn out, or disillusioned (see here ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 You have been told by someone or determined on your own that it is time for a new server, however what to get?A blade server, rack mount, floor model, physical or virtual perhaps cloud?How about one that is fully configured and accessorized to meet your specific environments needs?
There are several ...
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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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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 Hey IT data infrastructure vendors, VARs or service providers, are you on the Server and StorageIO IT industry interesting links page?
Dont worry, its free and no obligation!
There are no hidden charges or fees, you will not be obligated to pay a fee or subscribe to a service, or ...
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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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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 Over the past couple of weeks there has been a flurry of IT industry activity around data footprint impact reduction with Dell buying Ocarina and IBM acquiring Storwize. For those who want the quick (compacted, reduced) synopsis of what Dell buying Ocarina as well as IBM acquiring Storwize means read ...
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