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Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview (Part III)

Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances ( read more here ). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the third (tying the posts together) in a three-part series companion...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 5:32 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: SSD, Convergence, virtualization, cloud, tools, backup, server, object storage, big data, little data, Education, BC and DR, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, I/O Networking, database
Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview (Part II S3)

Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances ( read more here ). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the second (looking at S3) in a three-part series companion to the AWS...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 5:31 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: SSD, Convergence, virtualization, cloud, tools, backup, server, object storage, big data, Education, BC and DR, IT Infrastructure Topics, I/O Networking, database
Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview (Part I)

Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances ( read more here ). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the first (looking at EBS) in a three-part series companion to the AWS...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 11:29 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: SSD, Convergence, virtualization, cloud, tools, backup, server, object storage, big data, little data, Education, BC and DR, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, I/O Networking, database
Cloud conversations: AWS EBS Optimized Instances

Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) recently announced global availability of Elastic Block Storage ( EBS ) optimized support for four extra Elastic Cloud Computing ( EC2 ) instance types. The support enables optimized performance between standard and provisioned...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 5:27 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: SSD, Convergence, virtualization, cloud, tools, backup, server, object storage, big data, little data, Education, BC and DR, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, I/O Networking, database
Object StorageIO Resources

There is no such thing as an information recession with more data being generated, moved, processed, stored, preserved and served, granted there are economic realities. Likewise as a society our dependence on information being available for work or entertainment...

Published Mon, Mar 25 2013 8:51 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: NAS, object storage, big data, IT Cloud Storage
Speaking of SSDs (with poll)

In the spirit of solid state devices (SSD) including DRAM and nand flash, not to mention emerging phase chance memory ( PCM ) among others that help to boost productivity and cut latency, here are a couple of quick notes and links. Here are a some more...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2013 7:47 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: storage, vmware, IT Storage, SSD storage, SSD flash and RAM, SSD and DRAM
Cloud conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid and Community Clouds? (Part II)

This is the second of a two part series, read part I here . Common community cloud conversation questions include among others: Who defines the standards for community clouds? The members or participants, or whoever they hire or get to volunteer to do...

Published Tue, Feb 5 2013 10:02 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: storage, IT, data, cloud storage, Community Clouds, Private Cloud Storage, IT Clouds, Public Cloud Storage
Cloud conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid what about Community Clouds?

Have you heard of a community clouds? Cloud computing including cloud storage and services as products, solutions and services offer different functionality and enable benefits for various types of organizations, entities or individuals. Public clouds...

Published Tue, Feb 5 2013 9:59 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: storage, IT, data, Community Clouds, IT Cloud
Thanks for viewing StorageIO content and top 2012 viewed posts

2012 was a busy year (it was our 7th year in business) along with plenty of activity on StorageIOblog.com as well as on the various syndicate and other sites that pickup our content feed ( http://storageioblog.com/RSSfull.xml ). Excluding traditional...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2013 9:14 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: IT Storage, IT data, storageio top posts
Many faces of storage hypervisor, virtual storage or storage virtualization

Storage hypervisors were a 2012 popular buzzword bingo topic with plenty of industry adoption and some customer deployment . Separating the hype around storage hypervisors reveals conversations around storage virtualization and virtual storage . Cloud...

Published Fri, Jan 11 2013 7:06 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: storage, IT, data, storage hypervisor, storage virtualization
Cloud conversation, Thanks Gartner for saying what has been said

Thank you Gartner for your statements concurring and endorsing the notion of clouds can be viable, however do your homework, welcome to the club. Why am I thanking Gartner? Simple, I appreciate Gartner now saying what has been said for a couple of years...

Published Fri, Jan 11 2013 7:02 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: cloud, IT, data, gartner, cloud conversations
Congratulations Imation and Nexsan, are there any independent storage vendors left?

Last week Imation , the company that is known for making CDs, DVDs, magnetic tape and in the past floppy disk (diskettes) bought Nexsan , a company known for the SATA and SAS storage products. Imation is also (or should be) owns the TDK and Memorex names...

Published Wed, Jan 9 2013 5:28 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: storage news, IT news, nexsan, imation and nexsan, imation
Cloud conversations: Gaining cloud confidence from insights into AWS outages (Part II)

This is the second in a two-part industry trends and perspective looking at learning from cloud incidents, view part I here . There is good information, insight and lessons to be learned from cloud outages and other incidents. Sorry cynics no that does...

Published Tue, Jan 8 2013 8:11 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: cloud, IT, cloud backups, AWS outages
Cloud conversations: Gaining cloud confidence from insights into AWS outages

This is the first of a two-part industry trends and perspectives series looking at how to learn from cloud outages (read part II here ). In case you missed it, there were some public cloud outages during the recent Christmas 2012-holiday season. One incident...

Published Mon, Jan 7 2013 8:08 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: cloud, IT, cloud backups, AWS outages
Hardware, Software, what about Valueware?

I am surprised nobody has figured out how to use the term valueware to describe their hardware, software or services solutions, particular around cloud , big data, little data , converged solution stacks or bundles, virtualization and related themes....

Published Mon, Dec 17 2012 11:26 PM by Greg Schulz

Filed under: virtualization, cloud, big data, little data, software, services solutions, hardware, converged solution, valueware

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Cloud conversations: AWS EBS Optimized Instances

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Speaking of SSDs (with poll)

Cloud conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid and Community Clouds? (Part II)

Cloud conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid what about Community Clouds?

Thanks for viewing StorageIO content and top 2012 viewed posts

Many faces of storage hypervisor, virtual storage or storage virtualization

Cloud conversation, Thanks Gartner for saying what has been said

Congratulations Imation and Nexsan, are there any independent storage vendors left?

Cloud conversations: Gaining cloud confidence from insights into AWS outages (Part II)

Cloud conversations: Gaining cloud confidence from insights into AWS outages

Hardware, Software, what about Valueware?

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