Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 Depending on whom you talk to or ask, you will get different views and opinions, some of them stronger than others on if magnetic tape is dead or alive as a data storage medium. However an aspect of tape that is alive are the discussions by those ...
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Saturday, October 27th, 2012 Now also available via
This is the seventh (here is the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth) 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.
Given how at conference conversations tend to ...
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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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Sunday, May 20th, 2012 The following are a collection of on-going industry trends and perspectives poll's pertaining to server, storage, IO, networking, cloud, virtualization, data protection (backup, archive, BC and DR) among other related themes and topics.
In addition to those listed below, check out the comments section where additional poll's are added over ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 With March 31st as world backup day, hopefully some will keep recovery and restoration in mind to not be fooled on April 1st.
When it comes to protecting data, it may not be a headline news disaster such as earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane or act of man, rather something as ...
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012 Marketers particular those involved with anything resembling Solid State Devices (SSD) will tell you SSD is the future as will some researchers along with their fans and pundits. Some will tell you that the future only has room for SSD with the current flavor de jour being nand flash (both ...
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 Drew Robb has a good article about what IT industry pundits including vendors, analysts, and advisors loath including comments from myself.
In the article Drew asks: What do you really love about storage and what are your pet peeves?
One of my comments and perspectives is that I like Hybrid ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 I recently came across a piece by Carl Brooks over at IT Tech News Daily that caught my eye, title was Cloud Storage Often Results in Data Loss. The piece has an effective title (good for search engine: SEO optimization) as it stood out from many others ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 Warning: Do not be scared, however be ready for some trick and treat fun, it is after all, the Halloween season. I like new emerging technologies and trends along with Zombie technologies, you know, those technologies that have been declared dead yet are still being enhanced, sold and used. ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011 Lets face it, people and information are living longer and thus there are more of each along with a strong interdependency by both.
People living and data being retained longer should not be a surprise, take a step back and look at the bigger picture. There is no such thing as ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011 Lets start out by clarifying something, that is in terms of context or scope, big means storage capacity as opposed to the physical packaging size of a hard disk drive (HDD) which are getting smaller.
So are HDDs in terms of storage capacity getting too big?
This question of if HDDs ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011 Removable hard disk drives (RHDD) are a form of removable media which includes magnetic tape that address many common use cases. Usage scenarios include enabling bulk data portability for larger environments or for D2D backup where the media needs to be physically moved offsite for small and mid sized environments. ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 Welcome to the tapeisalive.com and tape summit (tapesummit.com) micro site with links for those who are interested in magnetic tape for backup, archive, BC, DR, big and little data
Sponsored by: StorageIO.com
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Have you heard or read the reports and speculation that VTLs (Virtual Tape Libraries) are dead?
It seems that in IT the all to popular trend is to declare something dead so that your new product or technology can have a chance of making it in to the ...
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