Its time I get back to writing about more than just topics that surround what IBM are doing in the world of storage. For example, I am pretty passionate about data protection . Having worked for Veritas, ESG (covering data protection), Connected Corporation (sold to Iron Mountain), Avamar (sold to EMC...
Say the word "infrastructure" at Strata conference and you hear people start talking mostly about software. One of the biggest lessons I learned at the conference was that no one really cares about the hardware that "big data" sits on. Now, I am probably the biggest proponent of the...
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The Storage Alchemist
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Fri, Mar 15 2013
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Filed under: Storage, IBM, Data, Cloud, Virtualization, backup, big data, PB, open api, cloning, TB, network attached storage, Data Protection, Replication, snapshots, strata
Do you know the computer technology saying, garbage data in results in garbage information out? In other words even with the best algorithms and hardware, bad, junk or garbage data put in results in garbage information delivered. Of course, you might have data analysis and cleaning software to look for...
September 18, 2012 - 2:31 pm Print PDF This is a follow-up to a recent post about modernizing data protection and doing more than simply swapping out media or mediums like flat tires on a car as well as part of the Quantum protecting data with certainty event series . As part of a recent 15 city event...
Have you modernized your data protection strategy and environment? If not, are you thinking about updating your strategy and environment? Why modernize your data protection including backup restore, business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategy and environment...
Speaking of and about modernizing data protection , back in June I was invited to be a keynote presenter on industry trends and perspectives at a series of five dinner events (Boston, Chicago, Palo Alto, Houston and New York City) sponsored by Quantum (that is a disclosure btw). The theme of the dinner...
Here are upcoming conferences I will be presenting at for November 2011. Next week, I will be in Auckland, New Zealand for the [ IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium ], similar to the one I attended in Orlando, Florida last July. Here are the sessions I will present: xST03 - Introduction...
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IT Storage 411: Inside Systems Storage by Tony Pearson
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Thu, Nov 3 2011
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Filed under: SONAS, melbourne, Tony Pearson, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, cloud offering, XIV Migration, Auckland, IBM Systems & Technology Group, New Zealand, technical events, storage efficiency, TS1140 3592-E07, eDiscovery, Australia, data retention, IBM System Storage Linear Tape File System (LTFS), XIV Optimization, Smart Business Storage Cloud, IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium, Smarter Computing initiative: Big Data, SAN switch, data protection, storage resource management tool, IBM Storwize V7000, midrange storage device, IBM Information Archive, TS3500 tape library connector Model SC1 (Shuttle), IBM cloud, XIV Implementation, Optimized systems, integrated appliance, Smart Business Storage Cloud (SBSC), customized solutions, IBM Storage
Virtualization is an abstraction of reality; turning physical assets into a pool of independent logical assets or de-coupling utilities and services from physical infrastructure. Today, we virtualize everything from servers, to storage, to networks. Heck, we virtualize people when you think about it...
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Data Protection Perspectives
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whitehouse
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Sun, Oct 9 2011
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Filed under: Actifio, compliance, e-discovery, disaster recovery, data protection, backup, retention, SLAs, RPO, virtual data management, virtualization, archive
IBM will be where the action is this fall at the SNW Show sponsored by Computerworld. SNW is one of the world's largest tradeshows and conferences on managing information infrastructure. Look for IBM experts and executives speaking at the event. Following is a list of IBM highlights at the event...
According to a recent report from Forrester Group," Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are top IT priorities for 2010 and 2011." This should come as no surprise as extreme weather conditions are at an all time record high around the world. Yesterday, the East Coast was rocked by a surprise...