• Nand flash SSD server storage I/O conversations

    Updated: 2014-03-31 03:29:50
    StorageIOblog Home Events StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Books Select Ads Nand flash SSD server storage I O conversations March 30, 2014 8:29 pm Print PDF Nand flash SSD server storage I O conversations Now and then somebody asks me if I’m familiar with flash or nand flash Solid State Devices SSD technologies and . trends Having been involved with various types of SSD technology , products and solutions since the late 80s initially as a customer in IT including as a lunch customer for DEC’s ESE20 SSD’s then later as a vendor selling SSD solutions , as well as an analyst and advisory consultant cover the technologies , I tell the person asking , well , yes , of . course That gave me the idea as well as to help me keep track of some of the content and make it easy to find

  • Data Protection Diaries: March 31 World Backup Day is Restore Data Test Time

    Updated: 2014-03-29 16:53:26
    StorageIOblog Home Events StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Books Select Ads Data Protection Diaries : March 31 World Backup Day is Restore Data Test Time March 29, 2014 10:53 am Print PDF World Backup Day Generating Awareness About Data Protection This World Backup Day piece is part of my ongoing Data Protection Diaries series of posts www.dataprotecitondiaries.com about trends , strategies tools and best practices spanning applications , archiving , backup restore business continuance BC business resiliency BR cloud data footprint reduction DFR security , servers , storage and virtualization among other related topic . themes Different threat risks and reasons to protect your digital assets data March 31 is World Backup Day which means you should make sure that your data

  • Matt Vogt of Computex talks VMware vCOPs in his first ever podcast

    Updated: 2014-03-28 02:56:40
    StorageIOblog Home Events StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Books Select Ads Matt Vogt of Computex talks VMware vCOPs in his first ever podcast March 27, 2014 8:56 pm Print PDF Matt Vogt of Computex talks VMware vCOPs in his first ever podcast In this episode from the Computex Rethink your Datacenter for 2017 planning and strategy event I am joined by Matt Vogt MattVogt Introducing Matt Vogt Matt is a Principal Architect with Computex Technology Solutions as well as certified VMware specialist and fellow . vExpert Not only is this the first appearance by Matt on the StorageIO Podcasts , it is also his first time as a guest on any podcast so I’m honored to host his global debut podcast appearance . here We talk about the role of automation for performance and capacity

  • March 2014 StorageIO Update Newsletter : Cisco Cloud, VMware VSAN and More

    Updated: 2014-03-25 21:49:56
    , StorageIOblog Home Events StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Books Select Ads March 2014 StorageIO Update Newsletter Cisco Cloud , VMware VSAN and More March 25, 2014 3:49 pm Print PDF Industry Trends Perspectives : Cisco Cloud and VMware VSAN Welcome to the March 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update newsletter containing trends perspectives on cloud , virtualization and data infrastructure topics . Technically it is now spring here in North America and to say that we have had abnormal cold weather would be an understatement . However it is March with April just around the corner meaning plenty to do including several upcoming events see below Clouds and Cisco Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions e.g . more than simply selling

  • Missing MH370 should remind us, do you know where your digital assets are?

    Updated: 2014-03-24 22:09:37
    , StorageIOblog Home Events StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Books Select Ads Missing MH370 should remind us , do you know where your digital assets are March 24, 2014 4:09 pm Print PDF Missing MH370 should remind us , do you know where your digital assets are I recently did a piece over at InformationSecurityBuzz called Dark Territories , Do You Know Where Your Information Is In that piece click here I bring up the topic of dark territories which with the recent missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 e.g . MH370 reminds us that even with today’s 24×7 Internet of Things IoT connected world , there are still dark spot areas lacking in coverage or . monitoring Some of you might have heard of dark territories as a term used in days of old that refereed to parts of railroads or

  • Psst, Google's Data Center Capacity is growing more than most think

    Updated: 2014-03-24 16:15:51
    The data center growth of Google is well documented and tracked.   From looking at the numbers Google is doubling its infrastructure spending over the past year. Obvious assumption then is a doubling of capacity. I made this incorrect assumption. I am off to SF tomorrow, and I’ll be looking for data to confirm my new assumption of how much new capacity Google is adding. 

  • Latest SPC-2 performance results – chart of the month

    Updated: 2014-03-19 20:28:58
    In the figure above you can see one of the charts from our latest performance dispatch on SPC-1 and SPC-2  benchmark results. The above chart shows SPC-2 throughput results sorted by aggregate MB/sec order, with all three workloads broken out … Continue reading →

  • iVMcontrol iPhone VMware management, iTool or iToy?

    Updated: 2014-03-16 20:42:44
    , StorageIOblog Home Events StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Books Select Ads iVMcontrol iPhone VMware management , iTool or iToy March 16, 2014 2:42 pm Print PDF iVMcontrol iPhone VMware management , iTool or iToy A few months back I was looking for a simple easy to use yet robust tool for accessing and managing my VMware environment from my iPhone The reason being is that I don’t always like to carry a laptop or tablet around , not to mention neither fits in a pocket very well . Needless to say there are many options for accessing VMware products and implementations that run on tablets including iPads as well as laptops among . others Why do I need iVMcontrol I wanted something that I could quickly access and check on a VM guest , start or stop things , gain status

  • Spring 2014 StorageIO Events and Activities Update

    Updated: 2014-03-13 01:33:21
    StorageIOblog Home Events StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Books Select Ads Spring 2014 StorageIO Events and Activities Update March 12, 2014 7:33 pm Print PDF Cloud Virtual Server Storage I O and Networking events Speaking of Old School , New School , Current and Future School here are some upcoming events including live in-person as well as virtual or online StorageIO activities The following calendar also includes a series of one-day workshop sessions that are part of a week of seminars to be held in Nijkerk Netherlands being Organized by Brouwer Storage Consultancy learn more here The current calendar which continues to be updated includes a mix of webinars playback are available and live events covering data infrastructure topics from cloud virtual , physical and

  • Securing synch & share data-at-rest

    Updated: 2014-03-12 23:26:17
      Snowden at SXSW said last week that it’s up to the vendors to encrypt customer data. I think he was talking mostly about data-in-flight but there’s just a big an exposure for data-at-rest, maybe more so because then, all the … Continue reading →

  • Two dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR)

    Updated: 2014-03-05 21:59:48
    I attended a Rocky Mountain IEEE Magnetics Society meeting a couple of weeks ago where Jonathan Coker, HGST’s Chief Architect and an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer was discussing HGST’s research into TDMR heads. It seems that disk track density … Continue reading →

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