Monday, April 8th, 2013 Riding the current software defined data center (SDC) wave being led by the likes of VMware and software defined networking (SDN) also championed by VMware via their acquisition of Nicira last year, Software Defined Marketing (SDM) is in full force. HP being a player in providing the core building blocks ...
Posted in announcement, big data, Cloud, Comment, convergence, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, little data, news, object storage, server, ssd, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 2 Comments »
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 Eric Siebert (@Ericsiebert) author of the book Maximum vSphere (get your copy on Amazon.com here) has opened up voting for the annual top vBlog over at his site (vSphere-land).
While there is a focus on VMware and Virtualization blogs, there are also other categories such as Storage, Scripting, pod casting ...
Posted in announcement, convergence, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, Poll, Site related, Storage and Storage Management Tools, virtualization | No Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2013 Yesterday VCE and their proud parents announced revenues had reached an annual run rate of a billion dollars. Today VCE announced some new products along with enhancements to others.
Before going forward though, lets take go back for a moment to help set the stage to ...
Posted in announcement, big data, Cloud, Comment, convergence, database, DCIM, I/O Networking, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, little data, metrics, music, news, Performance and Capacity, perspective, post, ssd, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 1 Comment »
Saturday, January 5th, 2013 My copy of the new book The Human Face of Big Data created by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt arrived yesterday compliments of EMC (the lead sponsor). In addition to EMC, the other sponsors of the book are Cisco, VMware, FedEx, Originate and Tableau software.
To say this is a ...
Posted in announcement, big data, book review, Cloud, Comment, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, database, DCIM, Education, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, little data, metrics, news, object storage, perspective, post, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 December 2012 News letter
Welcome to the December 2012 year end edition of the StorageIO Update news letter including a new format and added content.
You can get access to this news letter via various social media venues (some are shown below) in addition to StorageIO web sites ...
Posted in announcement, backup, BC and DR, big data, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, database, Education, Green IT, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, little data, metrics, news, object storage, Performance and Capacity, Personal Computing, perspective, pod cast, post, Power and Cooling, server, Site related, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, Travel, virtualization | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 With HP announcing that they were sold a bogus deal with Autonomy (read here, here and here among others) and the multi billion write off (loss), or speculation of who will be named the new CEO of Intel in 2013, don't worry if you missed the latest in the ongoing IBM vs. ...
Posted in announcement, big data, Comment, Data and Information Management, I/O Networking, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, news, perspective, server, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in announcement, backup, big data, calculator, Cloud, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, Education, Green, Green IT, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, news, Performance and Capacity, Personal Computing, Power and Cooling, server, Site related, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in announcement, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Education, Green IT, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, news, Performance and Capacity, Power and Cooling, server, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 19 Comments »
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 »
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 For those not familiar with Quest, they are a software company not to be confused with the telephone communications company formerly known as Qwest (aka now known as centurylink).
Both Dell and Quest have been on software related acquisition initiatives that past few years with Quest having purchased vKernel, ...
Posted in announcement, backup, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, news, Performance and Capacity, perspective, server, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 I recently saw a comment somewhere that talked about Green IT being deferred or set aside due to lack of funding because of ongoing global economic turmoil. For those who see Green IT in the context of the green washing efforts that requiring spending to gain some benefits that I ...
Posted in Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Education, Green, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, Performance and Capacity, perspective, Power and Cooling, server, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 5 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 »
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 ...
Posted in announcement, backup, Cloud, Comment, convergence, 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, news, Performance and Capacity, Personal Computing, perspective, Poll, Power and Cooling, server, Site related, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, Travel, virtualization | No Comments »
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 Is SSD dead? No, however some vendors might be
In a recent conversation with Dave Raffo about the nand flash solid state disk (SSD) market, we talked about industry trends, perspectives and where the market is now as well as headed. One of my comments is, has been and will remain ...
Posted in Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data and Information Management, I/O Networking, Infrastructure Resource Management, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, metrics, Performance and Capacity, perspective, Power and Cooling, server, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 19 Comments »
