Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 There is a new (free) book that I'm a co-author of along Bruce Grieshaber and Larry Jacob (both of LSI) along with foreword by Harry Mason of LSI and President of the SCSI Trade Association titled SAS SANs for Dummies compliments of LSI.
This new book (ebook and print hard ...
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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 ...
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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 21st, 2012 A news story about the school board in Marshall Missouri approving data storage plans in addition to getting good news on health insurance rates just came into my in box.
I do not live in or anywhere near Marshall Missouri as I live about 420 miles north ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 Happy new years!
Following up from a flurry of posts in the closing days of 2011 including industry trends perspective predictions for 2012 and 2013, top blog posts from 2011, top all time posts, along with a couple of other items here and here, its time to get back to 2012 ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011 Im in the process of wrapping up 2011 and getting ready for 2012. Here is a list of the top 25 all time posts from StorageIOblog covering cloud, virtualization, servers, storage, green IT, networking and data protection. Looking back, here is 2010 and 2011 industry trends, thoughts and ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011 2011 is almost over, so its wrap up time of the year as well as getting ready for 2012.
Here is a link to a post of the top 25 new posts that appeared on StorageIOblog in 2011.
As a companion to the above, here is a link to the all ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011 Im in the process of wrapping up 2011 and getting ready for 2012, here is a list of the top 25 new posts from this past year at StorageIOblog.
Looking back, here is a post about industry trends, thoughts and perspective predictions for 2010 and 2011 (preview 2012 and 2013 ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011 How much do you know about HDS?
When you hear HDS in the context of information technology do you think of Hitachi Data Systems?
Along with a bunch of other IT industry advisors, analysts, bloggers, consultants, financiers and pundits or influencers, Im attending a event being sponsored by HDS this week ...
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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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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 Rather than doing a bunch of separate posts, here is a collection of different perspectives and commentary on various IT and data storage industry activity.
In this link are comments and perspectives regarding thin provisioning including how it works as well as when to use it for optimizing storage space capacity. ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011 Technically here in the northern hemisphere it is still summer, so there is another summer wedding to announce.
The other day Hitachi Data Systems (aka HDS) announced that they finally tied the knot buying their Network Attached Storage (NAS) partner BlueArc whom they have been in a OEM premarital arrangement for ...
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