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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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, January 15th, 2013 2012 was a busy year (it was our 7th year in business) along with plenty of activity on StorageIOblog.com as well as on the various syndicate and other sites that pickup our content feed (http://storageioblog.com/RSSfull.xml).
Excluding traditional media venues, columns, articles, web casts and web site visits (StorageIO.com and StorageIO.TV), StorageIO ...
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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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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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Thursday, December 13th, 2012 I am surprised nobody has figured out how to use the term valueware to describe their hardware, software or services solutions, particular around cloud, big data, little data, converged solution stacks or bundles, virtualization and related themes.
Cloud and virtualization building blocks transformed into Valueware
Note that I'm referring ...
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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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Saturday, October 6th, 2012 This is the second of two posts (here is the first post) that are part of ongoing industry trends and perspectives cloud conversations series that looks at Dell and their cloud strategy story.
So what does the first post have to do with Dell having a cloudy cloud strategy story?
Simple, ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2012 This is first of a two-part post (click here for second post) that is part of ongoing industry trends and perspective cloud conversations series that looks at Dell and their cloud strategy story. For background, some previous Dell posts are found here, here, here and here. Here is ...
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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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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, ...
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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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