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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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 Now also available via
This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content here) as well as listening via iTunes or via your preferred means using this RSS feed ...
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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 ...
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Friday, April 5th, 2013 Now also available via
This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content here) as well as listening via iTunes or via your preferred means using this RSS feed ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 It is still early in 2013, so I can make some cloud, virtualization, storage and IO related predictions, or more aptly, talk about some trends, in addition to those that I made in late 2012, looking forward and back. Common over-riding themes will continue to include ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the first in a multi-part series of posts looking at if large enterprise and legacy storage systems are dead, along with what todays EMC VMAX 10K updates means.
EMC has announced an upgrade, refresh or new version of their previously announced Virtual matrix (VMAX) 10,000 (10K), part ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 Thank you Gartner for your statements concurring and endorsing the notion of clouds can be viable, however do your homework, welcome to the club.
Why am I thanking Gartner?
Simple, I appreciate Gartner now saying what has been said for a couple of years hoping it will help ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012 This is the fifth (here is the first, second, third and fourth ) in a series of StorageIO industry trends and perspective audio blog and pod cast discussions from Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall 2012 in Santa Clara California.
In this episode, while I'm on a plane flying home above 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, component and solution suppliers ...
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