• Cloud, Virtual, Server, Storage I/O and other technology tiering

    Updated: 2013-07-30 06:11:52
    , , , StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Cloud , Virtual , Server , Storage I O and other technology tiering July 29, 2013 11:11 pm Print PDF Tiering technology and the right data center tool for a given task Depending on who or what is your sphere of influence or your sources of information and insight are , there will be different views of tiering , particular when it comes to tiered storage and storage tiering for cloud , virtual and traditional environments Recently I did piece over at 21st century IT 21cit titled Tiered Storage Explained that looks at both tiered storage and storage tiering e.g . movement and migration , automated or manual that you can read here In the data center or information factory everything is not the

  • Biggest data security breach yet in the US

    Updated: 2013-07-27 02:12:59
    Read an article today about a data breach that hit a number of financial institutions and retail centers that handle credit card information (Please see Five Indicted In New Jersey For Largest Known Data Breach Conspiracy).  The institutions, in total, breached … Continue reading →

  • Non Disruptive Updates, Needs vs. Wants

    Updated: 2013-07-23 22:36:26
    , . StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Non Disruptive Updates , Needs vs . Wants July 23, 2013 3:36 pm Print PDF Do you want non disruptive updates or do you need non disruptive upgrades First there is a bit of play on words going on here with needs vs . wants , as well as what is meant by non disruptive Regarding needs vs . wants , they are often used interchangeably particular in IT when discussing requirements or what the customer would like to have . The key differentiator is that a need is something that is required and somehow cost justified , or hopefully easier than a want item . A want or like to have item is simply that , its not a need however it could add value being a benefit although may be seen as . discretionary

  • As the platters spin, HDD’s for cloud, virtual and traditional storage environments

    Updated: 2013-07-19 21:30:00
    , , StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select As the platters spin , HDD’s for cloud , virtual and traditional storage environments July 19, 2013 2:30 pm Print PDF HDDs for cloud , virtual and traditional storage environments This is a follow-up to a recent series of posts on Hard Disk Drives HDD’s along with some posts about How Many IOPS HDD’s can . do HDD and storage trends and directions include among others HDD’s will continue to be declared dead into the next decade , just as they have been for over a decade , meanwhile they are being enhanced continued to be used in evolving . roles SSD will continue to coexist with HDD , either as separate or converged HHDD’s . Where , where and how they are used will also continue to evolve .

  • Seagate provides proof of life: Enterprise HDD enhancements

    Updated: 2013-07-19 01:31:42
    : StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Seagate provides proof of life : Enterprise HDD enhancements July 18, 2013 6:31 pm Print PDF Proof of life : Enterprise Hard Disk Drives HDD’s are enhanced Last week while hard disk drive HDD competitor Western Digital WD was announcing yet another Velobit in a string of acquisitions e.g . earlier included Stec Arkeia and investments Skyera Seagate announced new enterprise class HDD’s to their portfolio . Note that it was only two years ago that WD acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies HGST the disk drive manufacturing business of Hitachi Ltd . not to be confused with HDS Similar to WD expanding their presence in the growing nand flash SSD market , Seagate also in May of this year

  • Can we get a side of context with them IOPS and other storage metrics?

    Updated: 2013-07-16 20:35:00
    StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Can we get a side of context with them IOPS and other storage metrics July 16, 2013 1:35 pm Print PDF Server , storage and IO metrics that matter need context There is an old saying that the best I O Input Output is the one that you do not have to do In the meantime , let's get a side of some context with them IOPS from vendors , marketers and their pundits who are tossing them around for server , storage and IO metrics that matter Expanding the conversation , the need for more context The good news is that people are beginning to discuss storage beyond space capacity and cost per GByte , TByte or PByte for both DRAM or nand flash Solid State Devices SSD Hard Disk Drives HDD along with Hybrid HDD

  • Has latency become the key metric? SPC-1 LRT results – chart of the month

    Updated: 2013-07-16 17:45:21
    I was at EMCworld a couple of months back and they were showing off a preview of the next version VNX storage, which was trying to achieve a million IOPS with under a millisecond latency.  Then I attended NetApp’s analyst … Continue reading →

  • Part II: EMC Evolves Enterprise Data Protection with Enhancements

    Updated: 2013-07-10 15:41:52
    : StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Part II : EMC Evolves Enterprise Data Protection with Enhancements July 10, 2013 8:41 am Print PDF This is the second part of a two-part series on recent EMC backup and data protection announcements Read part I here What about the products , what’s new In addition to articulating their strategy for modernizing data protection covered in part I here EMC announced enhancements to Avamar , Data Domain , Mozy and . Networker Data protection storage systems e.g . Data Domain Building off of previously announced Backup Recovery Solutions BRS including Data Domain operating system storage software enhancements , EMC is adding more application and software integration along with new platform systems .

  • EMC Evolves Enterprise Data Protection with Enhancements (Part I)

    Updated: 2013-07-10 15:41:08
    StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select EMC Evolves Enterprise Data Protection with Enhancements Part I July 10, 2013 8:41 am Print PDF A couple of months ago at EMCworld there were announcements around ViPR Pivotal along with trust and clouds among other topics . During the recent EMCworld event there were some questions among attendees what about backup and data protection announcements or lack there of Modernizing Data Protection Today EMC announced enhancements to its Backup Recovery Solutions BRS portfolio EMCBackup that continue to enable information and applications data protection modernizing including Avamar , Data Domain , Mozy and Networker Keep in mind you can't go forward if you can't go back , which means if you do not

  • HDS Mid Summer Storage and Converged Compute Enhancements

    Updated: 2013-07-10 01:42:07
    StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select HDS Mid Summer Storage and Converged Compute Enhancements July 10, 2013 6:42 am Print PDF Converged Compute , SSD Storage and Clouds Hitachi Data Systems HDS announced today several enhancements to their data storage and unified compute portfolio as part of their Maximize I.T . initiative Setting the context As part of setting the stage for this announcement HDS has presented the following strategy vision as part their vision for IT transformation and cloud . computing What was announced This announcement builds on earlier ones around HDS Unified Storage HUS primary storage using nand flash MLC Solid State Devices SSD and Hard Disk Drives HDD’s along with unified block and file NAS as well Unified

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