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• Data archiving and preservation
• Data footprint and proliferation reduction
• Data protection
• Green
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• Performance and Capacity
• Power and Cooling
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• Storage Architecture and Access
• Travel

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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• IT Industry Activity
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• server
• Storage Architecture and Access

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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• Data archiving and preservation
• Data footprint and proliferation reduction
• Data protection
• Data security
• Education
• Green
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• IT Industry Activity
• IT Infrastructure Topics
• metrics
• Performance and Capacity
• Power and Cooling
• server
• Site related
• Storage and Storage Management Tools
• Storage Architecture and Access

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

• Data and Information Management
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• Data footprint and proliferation reduction
• Data protection
• Data security
• Education
• food
• fun
• Green
• Infrastructure Resource Management
• IT Industry Activity
• IT Infrastructure Topics
• Performance and Capacity
• Power and Cooling
• Storage and Storage Management Tools
• Storage Architecture and Access
• Travel

It feels like Grand Central Station here…

Things have been busy (which is very good) and I feel like I'm at Grand Central station (Terminal) with the…

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• Green
• Infrastructure Resource Management
• IT Industry Activity
• IT Infrastructure Topics
• metrics
• Performance and Capacity
• Power and Cooling
• server
• Storage Architecture and Access
• tools

Green Power and Cooling Tools and Calculators

In the course of doing research and consulting work with various IT organizations, VARs, trade groups and vendors over the…

• Data archiving and preservation
• Data footprint and proliferation reduction
• Data protection
• Data security
• Education
• food
• fun
• Green
• IT Industry Activity
• IT Infrastructure Topics
• Performance and Capacity
• Power and Cooling
• Storage and Storage Management Tools
• Storage Architecture and Access
• Travel

Remember The Alamo

Yesterday I made a quick trip down to San Antonio Texas (SAT) to do a keynote talk about "BC/DR and…

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• Data footprint and proliferation reduction
• Data protection
• Data security
• Education
• Green
• Infrastructure Resource Management
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• Performance and Capacity
• Power and Cooling
• Storage and Storage Management Tools
• Storage Architecture and Access
• Travel

Downloads for fall 2008 San Francisco Storage Decisions now available

The TechTarget Storage Media Group has posted on Bitpipe the session presentations from the recent fall (November 17-19th) 2008 San Francisco…

• Education
• fun
• IT Industry Activity
• Storage Architecture and Access
• Travel

Time In and Around Clouds

This past week I spent some time in, around and above the clouds literally and figutively. I was in the…

• IT Industry Activity
• IT Infrastructure Topics
• Performance and Capacity
• Power and Cooling
• Storage and Storage Management Tools
• Storage Architecture and Access

SSD activity continues to go virtually round and round

Solid State Disk (SSD) (both FLASH and RAM based) activities and discussions continue to go round and round (pun intended)…

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• Infrastructure Resource Management
• IT Industry Activity
• IT Infrastructure Topics
• Performance and Capacity
• Power and Cooling
• Storage and Storage Management Tools
• Storage Architecture and Access

HP Storage Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP)

HP recently announced announced their new SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) which is an appliance with software (oh, excuse me,…