January 2015 Server StorageIO Industry Trends Newsletter

Volume 15, Issue I

Hello and welcome to this January 2015 Server and StorageIO update newsletter. Its 2015 and the new year is off and running picking up where 2014 left off. January is typically a relatively quiet month when it comes to technology announcements and other industry activity. However January is also time where there is a lot going on behind the scenes. This means that there are many things to watch for in the coming months, weeks or perhaps even days.

Commentary In The News

Following are some Server and StorageIO industry trends perspectives comments that have appeared in various venues. In case you missed it, Box recently did their IPO and here are some perspectives over at SaaS In the Enterprise prior to the IPO.

Over at Enterprise Storage Forum I have some perspectives on High Performance Compute (HPC) aka High Productivity Compute along with big data and object storage in the Lustre buying guide.

Also over at Enterprise Storage Forum some tips and comments on data storage benchmarking guide. Meanwhile over at  InfoStor check see 9 Storage Startups to Watch. Search SolidState Storage has some perspectives on NexGen Storage ioControl following SanDisk spinout and over at Processor some comments on avoiding common mistakes with virtualization. View more trends comments here

Tips and Articles

Cloud storage: Is It All About Cost?

Is cloud storage all about removing cost, cost cutting, free storage? Or perhaps even getting something else in addition to free storage?

You might ask: what type of cloud storage am I referring to? That’s a great question. After all, there are many types or categories of public cloud storage services, not to mention private and hybrid options. There are cloud storage services for consumers to save and share their photos, videos, music and other documents to. Then there is business and enterprise file, document, object and collaboration cloud storage options. Read the entire article here.

View recent as well as past tips and articles here

Server StorageIOblog posts

Recent StorageIOblog posts include:

• December 2014 StorageIO Newsletter
• Attention DIY Converged Storage Shoppers
  
  Software defined storage on a budget with
  Lenovo ThinkServer TS140
• Server storage I/O Intel NUC notes
  First impressions
  Second impressions

View other recent as well as past blog posts here

In This Issue

Events & Activities

Webinars

December 11, 2014 – BrightTalk
Server & Storage I/O Performance
December 10, 2014 – BrightTalk
Server & Storage I/O Decision Making
December 9, 2014 – BrightTalk
Virtual Server and Storage Decision Making
December 3, 2014 – BrightTalk
Data Protection Modernization
November 13 9AM PT – BrightTalk
Software Defined Storage

Videos and Podcasts

StorageIO podcasts are also available via and at StorageIO.tv

Intel Nuc

This Server StorageIO lab review looks at  Intel NUC for virtual, physical and software defined storage networking. Read more about Intel Nuc here.

View other StorageIO lab and reports here.

Resources and Links

Check out these useful links and pages:
storageio.com/links
objectstoragecenter.com
storageioblog.com/data-protection-diaries-main/
storageio.com/raid
storageio.com/ssd

Enjoy this edition of the Server and StorageIO update newsletter and watch for new tips, articles, StorageIO lab report reviews, blog posts, videos and podcasts along with in the news commentary appearing soon.

Cheers gs