Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 A couple of years ago I did this post about if Is FCoE Struggling to Gain Traction, or on a normal adoption course?
Fast forward to today, has anybody else noticed that there seems to be less hype and fud on Fibre Channel (FC) over Ethernet (FCoE) than a year ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 In case you missed it, VMware recently announced spending $1.05 billion USD acquiring startup Nicira for their virtualization and software technology that enables software defined networks (SDN). Also last week Oracle was in the news getting its hands slapped by for making misleading advertisement performance claims vs. IBM.
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 Have you seen or heard the theme that Direct Attached Storage (DAS), either dedicated or shared, internal or external is making a comeback?
Wait, if something did not go away, how can it make a comeback?
IMHO it is as simple as for the past decade or so, DAS ...
Posted in Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, perspective, server, ssd, Storage Architecture and Access, virtualization | 16 Comments »
Monday, June 4th, 2012 Have you noticed how Fibre Channel (FC) and FC over Ethernet (FCoE) switch and adapter vendors and their followers focus around bandwidth vs. response time, latency or other performance activity? For example, 8Gb FC (e.g. 8GFC), or 10Gb as opposed to latency and response time, or IOPS and other activity ...
Posted in backup, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, Performance and Capacity, perspective, server, ssd, Storage Architecture and Access, virtualization | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the beta of their new storage gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in your data center site. With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing standalone gateway ...
Posted in Cloud, Comment, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Education, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, perspective, server, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 37 Comments »
Monday, November 7th, 2011 Now that Halloween and talk of Zombies has past (at least for now), that means next up on the social or holiday calendar topics in the U.S. is thanksgiving which means turkey themes.
With turkey themes in mind, how about some past, current and maybe future technology flops or where ...
Posted in Cloud, fun, I/O Networking, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, Personal Computing, server, Storage Architecture and Access | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 Ok, it's now official, following its debut at the VMworld 2011 book store last week in Las Vegas, my new book Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press) is now formally released with general availability announced today along with companion material located at http://storageio.com/book3.html including the Cloud and Virtual Data Storage ...
Posted in Cloud, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, Education, Green, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, Performance and Capacity, Power and Cooling, server, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 Greg Schulz of StorageIO in conjunction with or dutch partner Brouwer Storage Consultancy will be presenting a two day workshop seminar for IT storage, virtualization, and networking professionals Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th of October 2011 at Ampt van Nijkerk Netherlands.
This two day interactive education seminar for storage professionals ...
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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 Getting SASsy, the other shared server to storage interconnect for disk and SSD systems. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is better known as an interface for connecting ...
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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 ...
Posted in Cloud, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, server, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, virtualization | 6 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Cloud, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, server, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, virtualization | 22 Comments »
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 This has been a busy week as on Monday Western Digital (WD) announced that they were buying the disk drive business from Hitachi Ltd. (e.g. HGST) for about $4.3 billion USD. The deal includes about $3.5B in cash and 25 million WD common shares (e.g. ...
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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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