Airport Parking, Tiered Storage and Latency
Ok, so what do airport parking, tiered storage and latency have in common?
View ArticleClouds Are Like Electricity: Dont Be Scared
IT clouds (compute, applications, storage, and services) are like electricity in that they can be scary or confusing to some while being enabling or a necessity s to others not to mention being a...
View ArticleThe Function of XaaS(X) - Pick a Letter
Given the wide spread use of anything SaaS among other XaaS terms, lets have a quick and perhaps fun look at what some of the different usages of the new function XaaS(X) in the IT industry today.
View ArticleOptimize Data Storage for Performance and Capacity Efficiency
Even with tough economic times, there is no such thing as a data recession! Thus the importance of optimizing data storage efficiency addressing both performance and capacity without impacting...
View ArticlePUE, Are you Managing Power, Energy or Productivity?
With a renewed focus on Green IT including energy Efficiency and Optimization of servers, storage, networks and facilities, is your focus on managing power, energy, or, productivity?
View ArticleRAID Relevance Revisited
While there are many new and evolving approaches to protecting data in addition to maintaining availability or accessibility to information, RAID despite the fan fare is far from being dead at least on...
View ArticleWhat Do VARs and Clouds As Well As MSPs Have in Common?
What do VARs and Clouds as well as MSPs have in common? Several things it turns out...
View ArticleAs the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Continues to Spin
Despite having been repeatedly declared dead at the hands of some new emerging technology over the past several decades, the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) continues to evolve as it moves towards its 60th...
View ArticleCloud Conversations: Loss of Data Access vs. Data Loss
Have you hugged your cloud or MSP lately?
View ArticleFrom Bits to Bytes: Decoding Encoding
With networking, care should be taken to understand if a given speed or performance capacity is being specified in bits or bytes as well as in base 2 (binary) or base 10 (decimal)
View ArticleStorageIO Momentus Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (HHDD) Moments
If you have never done a HDD firmware update, its not as bad or intimidating as might be expected. The Seagate firmware update tools make it very easy, that is assuming you have a recent good backup of...
View ArticleThe Data Storage Prayer
For those who follow or are involved with data storage religiously with a passion, then this is for you. As for others who do not get or understand what this is about, just ask those who are devout...
View ArticleIs FCoE Struggling to Gain Traction, or on a Normal Adoption Course?
If you measure FCoE adoption in months, sure, its been slow to gain adoption and deployment similar to how Ethernet, Fibre Channel (FC) and even iSCSI took time to evolve.
View ArticleI/O Virtualization (IOV) Revisited
Is I/O Virtualization (IOV) a server topic, a network topic, or a storage topic?
View ArticleSupporting IT Growth Demand During Uncertain Economic Times
Doing more with less, doing more with what you have or reducing cost have been the mantra for the past several years now.
View ArticleOld School, New School, Current and Back to School (With Poll)
Some of you might be old school while others are may be new school or what ever is current trendy and cool. However new schoolers to become future or current schoolers can learn from the old schoolers.
View ArticleApril 2015 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter
This months newsletter has a focus on cloud and object storage for bulk data, unstructured data, big data, archiving among other scenarios.
View ArticleModernizing Data Protection = Using new and old things in new ways
Keep in mind that a fundamental goal of an Information Technology (IT) organization is to protect, preserve and serve data and information in a cost-effective as well as productive way when needed....
View ArticleVMware vCloud Air Server StorageIOlab Test Drive with videos
VMware vCloud Air provides a platform similar to those just mentioned among others for your applications and their underlying resource needs (compute, memory, storage, networking) to be fulfilled. In...
View ArticleEMCworld 2015 How Do You Want Your Storage Wrapped?
Back in early May I was invited by EMC to attend EMCworld 2015 which included both the public sessions, as well as several NDA based discussions. Keep in mind that there is the known, there is the...
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