Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 May 2013 News letter
Welcome to the May 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. This edition has announcement analysis of EMC ViPR, Software Defined Storage (including a video here), server, storage and I/O metrics that matter for example how many IOPS can a HDD do (it ...
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Sunday, May 19th, 2013 How many IOPS can a HDD, HHDD or SSD do?
A common question I run across is how many IOPS (IO Operations Per Second) can a storage device or system do or give.
The answer is or should be it depends.
This is the first of a two-part series looking at storage ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2012 There are many business drivers and technology reasons for adopting data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and infrastructure Resource Management (IRM) techniques, tools and best practices. Today's agile data centers need updated management systems, tools, and best practices that allow organizations to plan, run at a low-cost, ...
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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 ...
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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 Spring 2012 StorageIO traveling out and about events are underway with activities already having occurred in New York City along with several online live and recorded web casts that you can find here and here. Other upcoming events and traveling to various venues include Dallas (SNW), San ...
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Friday, December 30th, 2011 Here (.qt) and here (.wmv) is a video from an interview that I did with Jenny Hamel (@jennyhamelsd6) during the Fall 2011 SNW event in Orlando Florida.
Topics covered during the discussion include:
Importance of metrics that matter for gaining and maintaining IT situational awareness
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Here is a link to a series cloud, virtualization and storage networking conversations posts that Im doing over at IT-Toolbox. Each post in the series covers various topics along with a frequently asked question that I encounter pertaining to clouds, virtualization and storage networking.
Here is some related ...
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 It has been a busy fall 2011 which started out with VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas just before the labor day weekend.
Scenes from the CXI party (@cxi) at VMworld 2011
Besides activity in support of the launch of my new book Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), I ...
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 A couple of weeks ago I traveled down to Orlando Florida for a few days to attend the fall 2011 SNW (Storage Networking World) produced in conjunction by IDG Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
While at the Orlando event, SNIA executive director Leo ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Converged and dynamic infrastructures, cloud and virtual environments are popular themes and industry trends with different levels of adoption and deployment occurring. Although are you focusing on products, or the other Ps, that is people, processes and policies (or more here).
The reason I bring this up is ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 Here is a link to a recent guest post that I was invited to do over at The virtualization Practice (TVP) pertaining to VMware vSphere V5.0 VASA.
This new post follows up on one that I did about a month ago pertaining to recent vSphere V5.0 storage and ...
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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 ...
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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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