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Data Protection in the “New World”

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...

Published Thu, May 16 2013 2:24 AM by skenniston

Filed under: Data Protection, Lifecycle Management
Designing Storage Architectures at FedScoop 2013

An interview about designing new storage architectures I did while at FedScoop this year in Washington, DC.

Published Wed, Apr 24 2013 12:31 PM by skenniston

Filed under: Storage, Data, Cloud, Virtualization, washington dc, fedscoop, architecture
Flash is Really about Economics

Kudos to IBM! For the first time since I can remember, they have come out, loud and proud about storage technology and capabilities that truly do trump anyone else in the industry. And they didn't just brag about the fact they have better technology...

Published Sat, Apr 13 2013 2:56 AM by skenniston

Filed under: flash, IBM flash, flash system flash + storage flash storage system
"Big Enough" Data

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...

Published Fri, Mar 15 2013 11:38 PM by skenniston

Filed under: Storage, IBM, Data, Cloud, Virtualization, backup, big data, PB, open api, cloning, TB, network attached storage, Data Protection, Replication, snapshots, strata
The Storage Alchemist from Strata 2013

The Storage Alchemist talks about his findings from Strata 2013. Interesting that there wasn't much talk about infrastructure and infrastructure and data management are going to play a key role in the success and viability of Big Data. Also, the latest...

Published Wed, Mar 6 2013 4:10 AM by skenniston

Filed under: IT storage, IT, big data, IT Infrastructure, strata 2013
Big Data Catches a Killer

One of my favorite shows is Criminal Minds . I think most people that are like me, like those sorts of crime shows. However, I like Criminal Minds, and being in the data business, I like how Penelope Garcia has access to a TON of data that helps her help...

Published Fri, Mar 1 2013 12:51 AM by skenniston

Filed under: IT storage, IBM, IT, big data
Deduplication for Flash / SSD & Tiering

As a part of being a storage evangelist, I spend a lot of time educating sales as well as customers on the merits of our capabilities and technologies. Every since IBM acquired TMS I have been hearing from our sales reps that it can be difficult to compete...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2013 11:25 PM by skenniston

Filed under: IT storage, IT, All Flash Array, EasyTier, FAST
The Hellabyte & the Storage Efficiency Evangelist

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...

Published Wed, Jan 30 2013 5:50 AM by skenniston

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
Big Data is OUT, Real-time Data is IN

Okay, the time has come to retire "Big Data". There was a great post in TechCrunch at the begining of the year, talking about "Why We Need to Kill Big Data", as well as a good tweet by Dr. Wells Martin about Big Data. First, the industry...

Published Thu, Jan 24 2013 2:30 AM by skenniston

Filed under: IT storage, IT, big data, API, data sets, real-time data
Storage Consolidation Keeps on Trucking

So the storage sector starts off with a bang when it comes to M&A, driving more consolidation in the market with Imation acquiring disk storage vendor Nexsan. Isn't Nexsan the ATABeast storage company? How does one market a supposed enterprise...

Published Wed, Jan 9 2013 11:24 PM by skenniston

Filed under: Storage, IT, storage news, IT news, Nexsan, IBMmation
Datageddon

It is that time of the year when predictions are big. We have seen them all. Now, I'm not going to get into all the details of why folks believe the world "will end" on 12/21/2012. To me, the basics come from, more or less, to some ideas...

Published Sun, Dec 23 2012 6:55 AM by skenniston

Filed under: IT storage, Data, EMC, western digital, oracle, blue arc, seagate
The Business End of Storage

Last week I presented at an event for Storage Magazine in the famous London Tower Bridge (shown here) It was a fabulous venue. Dave Tyler, Editor of Storage Magazine for the UK gave a presentation that talked about the "buzzword bingo" vendors...

Published Thu, Dec 6 2012 7:23 AM by skenniston

Filed under: Storage, IBM, Data, IT, BAO practices, storage magazine
Flape and Floud: A Combination of Flash, Tape and Cloud

Last week, in the midst of doing research on Flash/SSD I spent a good deal of time speaking to one of the foremost experts on the topic, David Floyer at Wikibon . We were discussing the fact that once Flash is cost effective enough (and we are almost...

Published Thu, Nov 8 2012 11:39 PM by skenniston

Filed under: Cloud, tape, wikibon, David Floyer of Wikibon, flash
EasyTier Trumps FAST

So, it has been a while but I wanted to start sharing a lot of the great things going on in IBM storage. And now, with the recent promotion of Ed Walsh, former CEO of Storwize, acquired by IBM in August of 2010, to VP of Marketing and Strategy for Storage...

Published Mon, Oct 8 2012 2:37 AM by skenniston

Filed under: Storage, IBM, Data, Business, IT, big data, Marketing, EMC
The Eve of the Facebook IPO

So yesterday I am flying back from Slovakia through London and I hear to girls behind me talking about Facebook. They are both discussing the fact that they would NEVER buy Facebook stock because they are both leaving Facebook, and of course it was just...

Published Thu, May 17 2012 9:09 PM by skenniston

Filed under: big data, facebook IPO

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Data Protection in the “New World”

Designing Storage Architectures at FedScoop 2013

Flash is Really about Economics

"Big Enough" Data

The Storage Alchemist from Strata 2013

Big Data Catches a Killer

Deduplication for Flash / SSD & Tiering

The Hellabyte & the Storage Efficiency Evangelist

Big Data is OUT, Real-time Data is IN

Storage Consolidation Keeps on Trucking

Datageddon

The Business End of Storage

Flape and Floud: A Combination of Flash, Tape and Cloud

EasyTier Trumps FAST

The Eve of the Facebook IPO

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