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Green Storage is Alive and Well: ENERGY STAR Enterprise Storage Stakeholder Meeting Details

While Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list if not already extinct, there are many…

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U.S. EPA Looking for Industry Input on Energy Star for Storage

Following up on previous blog posts, here is some information that the U.S. EPA is looking for comments from industry on…

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Has SSD put Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) On Endangered Species List?

Disclosure: I have been a user, vendor, author and analyst covering and a fan (and continue to be) of SSD…

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Storage Effiency and Optimizaiton – Balancing Time and Space

Here's a link to the presentation I recently delivered at the Spring 2009 Minneapolis/St. Paul area CMG (Computer Measurement Group…

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Storage Decisions Spring 2009 Sessions Update

The conference lineup and details for the Spring 2009 Storage Decisions event (June 1st and 2nd) in Chicago is coming…

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March and Mileage Mania Wrap-up

Today's flight to Santa Ana (SNA) Orange County California for an 18 hour visit marks my 3rd trip to the…

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Odds and Ends – Getting Caught Up, News and Other Updates

This post is a collection of various odds and ends, news and updates as Im getting caught up on some…

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Is There a Data and I/O Activity Recession?

With all the focus on both domestic and international economic woes and discussion of recessions and depressions and possible future…

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Server and Storage Virtualization – Life beyond Consolidation

Ask someone what virtualization of IT servers or storage means and the typical response is to consolidate under-utilized physical servers or…

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Do you have your copy of “The Green and Virtual Data Center” yet?