Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 February 2013 News letter
Welcome to the February 2013 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 and subscriptions. ...
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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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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, December 12th, 2012 It is late in the day December 12, 2012 and best I can tell, we are still here, and for some, by time you read this it will be a few days or weeks later which means that either the Mayan calendar had it wrong, or we misinterpret it. Some ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2012 When I was in Europe presenting some sessions at conferences and doing some seminars last month I meet and spoke with one of the attendees at the StorageExpo Holland event. The persons name (Han Breemer) came up to visit with me after one of my presentations that include SSD is in your ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2012 Recently I was in Europe for a couple of weeks including stops at Storage Networking World (SNW) Europe in Frankfurt, StorageExpo Holland, Ceph Day in Amsterdam (object and cloud storage), and Nijkerk where I delivered two separate 2 day, and a single 1 day seminar.
At the recent StorageExpo Holland event in Utrecht, I ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 My how time flies, seems like just yesterday (back in 2008) that I did a piece titled Politics and Storage, or, storage in an election year V2.008 and if you are not aware, it is 2012 and thus an election year in the U.S. as well as in many other ...
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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, part and solution suppliers ...
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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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Sunday, March 11th, 2012 My two most recent books The Green and Virtual Data Center and Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking both published by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis have been added to the Intel Recommended Reading List for Developers.
If you are not familiar with the Intel Recommended Reading List ...
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 Industry adoption and deployment may be one and the same depending on your viewpoint.
However they can also mean different things depending on what you do or your area of interest.
For example, when I hear the term industry adoption that means that the industry (press, media, bloggers, analysts, consultants, evangelists, ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010 With the 2010 summer solstice having occurred in the northern hemisphere that means it is time for a quick out and about update. It has been a busy winter and spring in the office, on the road as well as at home.
Some results of this ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 This is the first in a series of ongoing short industry trends and perspectives blog post briefs. These short posts compliment other longer posts along with traditional industry trends and perspective white papers, research reports, solution brief content found at www.storageio.com/reports.
I often get asked by people what ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 I just received an email in my inbox from Voltaire along with a pile of other advertisements, advisories, alerts and announcements from other folks.
What caught my eye on the email was that it is announcing a new survey results that you can read here as well as below.
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