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**New Blog Post by Stephen Foskett, "Why We Won't See the End of Hard Disk Drives Any Time Soon."**

IBM Announces Sessions at Technical Edge Conference: IT Storage Education and Best Practices

Tell us what you think: Share your thoughts, questions and opinions with us at anytime in the comments section on the blog or in the discussion groups.

	Analyst Opinions
	Check out featured Storage articles by Stratecast, a division of Frost and Sullivan. Each paper is designed to help senior executives make critical business, technology, product, partnership, and tactical strategy decisions. Frost & Sullivan Paper: How you position your Storage project can make all the difference. Frost & Sullivan: Storage Armageddon: What your Database Administrator Isn’t Telling You Frost & Sullivan: Storage Costs versus Performance Frost & Sullivan: The Insidious Impact of Data Growth Frost & Sullivan: Tiering Your Data

	Upcoming Events
	On-Demand Video Webcast: Private Storage Cloud Learn how to build a practical roadmap toward private Storage Cloud by starting with a virtualized, efficient storage environment to build a more flexible and responsive business. Join Dan Galvan, VP, Storage Systems Marketing and Strategy, IBM Systems and Technology Group and featured Gartner Research VP Stan Zaffos for this informative video webcast. Listen to this brief 25 minute Video Webcast to hear how Cloud Storage can help you manage your business more efficiently. Companies are constantly battling two equally important yet seemingly contradictory objectives: data growth and constrained budgets.

Featured Experts

Get your questions answered by one of our experts!

	Jerome Wendt President and Lead Analyst-DCIG Corporation
	Greg Schulz Advisor and Author-StorageIO
	Tony Pearson Senior IT Storage Consultant and Master Inventor - IBM System Storage Product Line.
	Mary Hall Storage Programs - IBM Corporation
	Steve Kenniston Global Storage Efficiency Evangelist- IBM Corporation

Stephen Foskett

Independent IT/business consultant and Storage blogger

	Latest IT Storage News
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Community News

IBM Celebrates 60 years of Tape

Deep Mainframe Storage Dive at IBM Edge Conference

Webcast: Listen on Demand, Anytime: Controlling costs through Compute Cloud Storage. Register now to hear Steve Kenniston, IBM Global Storage
Efficiency Strategy Consultant, review what organizations
need from their storage and cloud infrastructure.

	Watch Videos and Presentations from the IBM Executive Storage Summit
	Listen to all the presentations from IBM's recent Executive Storage Summit

Ask the Experts

Get your questions answered by one of our experts!

	Jerome Wendt President and Lead Analyst-DCIG Corporation
	Greg Schulz Advisor and Author-StorageIO
	Tony Pearson Senior IT Storage Consultant and Master Inventor - IBM System Storage Product Line.
	Mary Hall Storage Programs - IBM Corporation
	Steve Kenniston Global Storage Efficiency Evangelist- IBM Corporation

Stephen Foskett

Independent IT/business consultant and Storage blogger

Upcoming Events

Announcing IBM Edge2012: June 4-8, in Orlando, Florida

The Premier Storage Efficiency Conference, offering both Technical and Executive tracks. IBM Edge offers :

250 technical sessions
Leading analysts and customer case studies.
Hot topics like Data Deduplication, Back-up and Recovery, Storage ROI, Contingency Planning, Data Center Planning, Load Balancing and more.

Intel Experts to Speak at IBM Edge. Get the details on their sessions here

"Why I'm Excited to Be Attending IBM Edge in June "by Storage Blogger Stephen Foskett.

	Connect with us on Twitter
	Tweet with us @IBMSTG: Follow the updates on IT Storage in the Community and join the conversations on Twitter using the hashtags: #storagecommunity and #IT #Storage.

	Sneak Preview of IBM Edge 2012, June 4-8

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	Storage Security : Can you comply with court orders for data from the cloud? New White Papers in the Content Library: Frost & Sullivan Storage Technical Briefs Get the keynote from IBM Technical University on "Virtualization & the Future of IT" in the Community library. Are HDD's getting too big? What are you using to effectively manage your data footprint impact? Join the discussion and tell us what you think. Follow @IBMSTG Tweet with us @IBMSTG: Follow the updates on IT Storage in the Community and join the conversations on Twitter using the hashtags: #storagecommunity and #IT #Storage.

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New Blog Post by Stephen Foskett, "Why We Won't See the End of Hard Disk Drives Any Time Soon."

Listen to this brief 25 minute Video Webcast to hear how Cloud Storage can help you manage your business more efficiently. Companies are constantly battling two equally important yet seemingly contradictory objectives: data growth and constrained budgets.

Webcast: Listen on Demand, Anytime: Controlling costs through Compute Cloud Storage. Register now to hear Steve Kenniston, IBM Global Storage Efficiency Strategy Consultant, review what organizations need from their storage and cloud infrastructure.

Announcing IBM Edge2012: June 4-8, in Orlando, Florida

The Premier Storage Efficiency Conference, offering both Technical and Executive tracks. IBM Edge offers :

Leading analysts and customer case studies.

Hot topics like Data Deduplication, Back-up and Recovery, Storage ROI, Contingency Planning, Data Center Planning, Load Balancing and more.

**New Blog Post by Stephen Foskett, "Why We Won't See the End of Hard Disk Drives Any Time Soon."**

Webcast: Listen on Demand, Anytime: Controlling costs through Compute Cloud Storage. Register now to hear Steve Kenniston, IBM Global Storage
Efficiency Strategy Consultant, review what organizations
need from their storage and cloud infrastructure.