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As most of our Storage Community members know the IBM Edge event is coming on June 10-14th in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Last year's event was so well received, it sold out. As a result, IBM Edge has been greatly expanded for 2013. The event now includes much more than IBM storage...
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Mary Hall
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Thu, May 2 2013
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Filed under: storage, cloud, ibm technical edge, IBM PureSystems, IBM Edge conference, technical labs, techincial education, ibm edge, Edge 2013 speaker, ibm edge 2013
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An interview about designing new storage architectures I did while at FedScoop this year in Washington, DC.
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Wrapping up my coverage of the 2013 IT Security and Storage Expo in Belgium, I noticed some interesting things in the other booths. The EMC booth had a whiteboard so that clients could do some one-on-one collaboration. All of their cocktail waitresses were wearing sharp pin-stripe coats with matching...
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IT Storage 411: Inside Systems Storage by Tony Pearson
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az990tony
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Fri, Mar 29 2013
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Filed under: ibm, storage, NetApp, HDS, EMC, Linux, Windows, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Belgium, Expo, FreeNAS, STS, AIX, Fortinet, Hitachi, Aerohive, Data ONTAP, Solaris
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In June, the IBM team will be hosting the IBM Edge conference in Las Vegas. Last year, the conference sold out and was well-received by our customers. To respond to customer requests, this year's conference has expanded to include more than Storage. The conference will cover best practices for managing...
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Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, we had a nice reception Wednesday evening. Clara handed out Ceasar Chicken salads. Joelle handed out small rolled up pieces of duck. Ilsa is an IBM expert in System x, VMware and the PureSystems family on hand to help with...
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IT Storage 411: Inside Systems Storage by Tony Pearson
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az990tony
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Wed, Mar 27 2013
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Filed under: ibm, mainframe, storage, system x, DFSMS, z/OS, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Belgium, Expo, Veeam, Arrow, Ans America, Huawei, System z
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Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, we had some great storage solutions on display at the IBM and I.R.I.S-ICT booth. Here my IBM colleague Tom Provost is showing the front of the "Smarter Office" solution. The second photo gives the view from behind...
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IT Storage 411: Inside Systems Storage by Tony Pearson
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az990tony
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Wed, Mar 27 2013
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Filed under: ibm, vmware, storage, FCoE, PureFlex, PureSystems, NFS, CIFS, Hyper-V, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Belgium, Expo, Veeam, Juniper Networks, tape library, SFF, LCM, SCP, HTTPS, FCP, Linux KVM, XIV Gen3, RDX, Tom Provost, TS3500, Flex System, iSCSI, FTP
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Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, here is my post on the presentations I gave during the week. There were four presentations each day. Of the five rooms, I was assigned one room in which to give all of my presentations, room 3. My room was quite large, with...
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IT Storage 411: Inside Systems Storage by Tony Pearson
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az990tony
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Tue, Mar 26 2013
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Filed under: Jeff Jonas, ibm, big data, storage, smartcloud, HSM, Harley Puckett, Chris Saul, Active Cloud Engine, HA, Marisol Diaz, BC, Tiering, Tom Deutsch, Easy Tier, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Iliana Garcia, Ron Riffe, Jon Toigo, DR, Joe Hayward, Jack Arnold, Belgium, Brigitte Van Den Eynde, Steve McKinney, Replication, Storwize V3700, Expo
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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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skenniston
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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
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As the conclave considers, all eyes look for the cloud of white smoke. Fear not, this cup's not a cloud sermon. Like the Holy Roman Church, Fed IT is looking for salvation. Cardinals Issa , Carper , and Connolly are driving reformation legislation . Having set aside the heretic 25 Commandments ,...
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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 pieces to have a quick look at: SSD & Real Estate...
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Data center consolidation, or more appropriately, optimization, is every CIO's valentine when it comes to saving real money. It's no wonder Feds have such a crush - we spend about $40 billion every year on these processing hunks. But, are we getting more efficient? With the promise of $3-5 billion...
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Recently, I spoke with Jarrett Potts, my long-time friend and former IBM colleague, who now works as Director of Strategic Marketing over at STORServer. If you have never heard of STORServer, it is a company that makes purpose-built backup appliances. Last month, STORServer announced their [ backup appliances...
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The S Word... No pay raise for three years. Zero bonuses. Add in a heaping spoon of scorn and derision. Who'd want to work for Uncle Sam? With Sequestration on the slate - and the threat of furloughs and 20 percent pay cuts on the horizon - a growing number of Feds are eyeing the door. And, if the...
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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 it. Who pays for the community cloud? The members...
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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, private clouds and hybrids leveraging public and...