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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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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 to the AWS EBS optimized post found here . Part I...
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Tue, Mar 26 2013
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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
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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 EBS optimized post found here . Part I is here (closer...
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Tue, Mar 26 2013
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Filed under: SSD, Convergence, virtualization, cloud, tools, backup, server, object storage, big data, Education, BC and DR, IT Infrastructure Topics, I/O Networking, database
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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 EBS optimized post found here . Part II is here ...
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Greg Schulz
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Tue, Mar 26 2013
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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
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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 IOP EBS volumes and EC2 instances to meet different...
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Greg Schulz
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Tue, Mar 26 2013
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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
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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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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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What had started out as a joke to a bunch of Californians has turned into "The Official Petition to Establish Hella as the SI Prefix for 10^27" . Today we have the Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte and Yottabyte. Most would think that this would be enough...
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The Storage Alchemist
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skenniston
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Tue, Jan 29 2013
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Filed under: storage efficiency, Storage, Data, Virtualization, data deduplication, compression, big data, tiering, zetabyte, real-time compression, kilobyte, facebook, exabyte, yottabyte, petabyte, thin provisioning, hellabyte, terabyte
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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. Cloud and virtualization building blocks transformed...
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During the recent Hurricane Sandy that blew through the East Coast, it made me wonder if we are really getting the best value out of our investment in our Offsite Disaster Recovery Facility . We spend millions of dollars every year to have a facility that could accommodate a disaster recovery of any...
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Yesterday I read a posting on Facebook asking people to choose between 2 different types of candy: FB poll: Baby Ruth or Butterfinger? Many people responded but 90% did not stick to the 2 options that were on the table; many responses were instead ' I like Sevens ' or ' I like Zero Bars '...
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This is the second of two posts ( here is the first post ) that are part of ongoing industry trends and perspectives cloud conversations series that looks at Dell and their cloud strategy story. So what does the first post have to do with Dell having a cloudy cloud strategy story ? Simple, there have...
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My how time flies, seems like just yesterday ( back in 2008 ) that I did a piece titled Politics and Storage, or, storage in an election year V2.008 and if you are not aware, it is 2012 and thus an election year in the U.S. as well as in many other parts of the world. Being an election year it's...
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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...
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Most of us, at some stage in our lives, have used a funnel to pour liquid from one vessel into another container. The ultimate goal in using the funnel is to get the liquid into a container that has a small opening. What happens when we decide to turn the funnel upside down and try and pour something...
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Every year, I teach hundreds of sellers how to sell IBM storage products. I have been doing this since the late 1990s, and it is one task that has carried forward from one job to another as I transitioned through various roles from development, to marketing, to consulting. This week, I am in the city...
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IT Storage 411: Inside Systems Storage by Tony Pearson
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Mon, Aug 13 2012
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Filed under: ibm, virtualization, storwize v7000, Productivity Center Standard Edition (SE), tpc, svc taiwan taipei, nas tsm san+volume+controller unified storage tivoli storage, top gun, infrastructure management, unified recovery managemenet, flashc disk, sonas sales training, storwize v7000 unified