The name Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO (e.g StorageIO) reflects the focus of experience and coverage having been an IT customer, vendor, var, advisor, analyst, author and consultant involved with services, servers, storage, I/O networking, hardware and software development spanning over four decades.
StorageIO exist to help vendors get their product info and story to applicable customers and partners while helping IT customers identify their needs and matching those to applicable solutions. Leveraging the experiences of an IT customer, vendor, author and storage industry analyst, StorageIO is uniquely prepared to help enable you to meet your specific business needs or objectives on a confidential basis.
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With a common or short name of StorageIO, we often get asked when people here our full name of Server StorageIO, and our focus on Data Infrastructure, when did we move beyond Storage? Simple answer is long before having the name and brand identity of StorageIO, our expertise involved servers, operating systems, business applications software development, networking, hardware, software, management, performance engineering, capacity planning, data protection, BC, DR, and much more, including Storage and I/O.
Thus our focus is on topics, techniques and best practices that enable efficient, effective, scalable, flexible resilient IT data infrastructures that support information services delivery, from legacy core, cloud to edge including IoT.
Best practices, techniques and technologies covered by StorageIO converge around server, virtualization, cloud and I/O data storage networking along with IT Service Management (ITSM) and Infrastructure Resource Management (IRM) and Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and data protection (Archive, Backup, Restore, BC, DR, Security) topics.
Topics and themes include performance and capacity planning, data protection (HA, Backup/restore, BC, DR), data footprint reduction (Archiving, compression, consolidation, data management and dedupe), software defined storage, object storage, flash, NVMe, SSD, resource management, server, storage and networking.
Founded by server, storage, hardware and software IT veteran Greg Schulz, Server StorageIO services include content generation (white paper, articles, videos, web and pod cast), speaking engagements (keynotes, seminars, sales, marketing and customer events) along with NDA (confidential) custom research as well as advisory (strategy, product and technology positioning), validation, lab testing, audits among other services.
Mr. Schulz has worked with *nix, Windows, Mainframe, OpenVMS, PC, Mac, iOS, Android and other hardware, network, and software environments. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, server and storage planner, capacity planner, systems engineer, technologist and server, storage I/O industry analyst.
Firms that Greg has worked for include Evaluator Group (analyst firm), CNT & INRANGE (SAN, WAN, MAN vendor), MTI (Storage and networking hardware and software vendor), Burlington Northern Railroad (Server and Storage management, Performance and Capacity Planning, DR planning), DCA Benefits (Systems management) and Cooperative Power Utility (Systems analysis and software development) among others.
In addition to being the author of “Softwre-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials” (CRC), he also wrote “Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking” (CRC) and “The Green and Virtual Data Center” (CRC) (both named to the Intel Recommend Reading List for developers) along with SNIA education endorsed reading books “Resilient Storage Networks” (Elsevier), Greg has contributed material to several other projects including “The Resilient Enterprise” and “Virtual Storage Redefined” (both Veritas Press).
A well regarded and popular speaker throughout the world, Mr. Schulz regularly presents at events including conferences and on-line web casts. Other published material by Mr. Schulz includes over a thousand white papers, articles, web casts, presentations, pod casts, briefs and tips e-discovery, power and cooling, energy efficiency, green IT and data storage.
Other topics include data classification, covering storage, clustering, high availability, object storage, cloud, virtualization, SSD, SAN & NAS, Metro and WAN storage networking, dedupe and data footprint reduction (DFR), backup, data protection modernization, data center, energy and Green IT, VTL, I/O, NVMe, flash, SSD, performance, benchmarking, capacity planning, ILM, storage management, virtualization, data protection, security, database and related topics.
Mr. Schulz has a B.A. in computer science and Master of Science in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas. Greg is also a multi-year Microsoft MVP (Cloud and Data Center Management) and ten-time VMware vExpert (including vSAN). Refer to the Server StorageIO portfolio page to see events, on-demand webinars, tips and articles among other content that has appeared in different venues around the world here and here. In addition to activities at StorageIO, Greg is also an FAA Licensed commercial drone (sUAS) operator and creator of Pictures Over Stillwater creating lots of little and big data.
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