Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Since the August newsletter, things have been busy with a mix of behind the scenes projects, as well as other activities including several webinars, on-line along with in-person events in the US as well as Europe.

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DECEMBER 26, 2013

Note that in Information Technology (IT) conversations there are multiple meanings for SMB including Server Message Block aka Microsoft Windows CIFS (Common Internet File System) along with its SAMBA implementation, however for this piece the context is Small Medium Business. A […].

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 6, 2014

Blog post – Goodbye 2013, hello 2014, predictions past, present and future Good by 2013 and hello 2014 along with predictions past, present and future First, for those who may have missed this, thanks to all who helped make 2013 a great year! Looking back at 2013 I saw a continued trend of more vendors […].

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 2, 2018

Data Protection Recovery Life Post World Backup Day Pre GDPR It’s time for Data Protection Recovery Life Post World Backup Day Pre GDPR Start Date. The annual March 31 world backup day focus has come and gone once again.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 13, 2014

Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley The O’Reilly @oreillymedia media folks (oops, excuse me, Microsoft Press) sent me out (that’s a disclosure btw) an real soft cover print copy of Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley aka @MicroFarley of Microsoft/Storsimple (..)

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 12, 2014

The current calendar which continues to be updated includes a mix of webinars (playback are available), and live events covering data infrastructure topics from cloud, virtual, physical and software defined across servers, storage I/O networking, SSD, performance, object storage and data protection among other related themes.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

The post Data Storage Innovation Chat with SNIA Wayne Adams and David appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

What this means is that instead of paying for an hour of time for your code to run, you can choose to use the Lambda service with more fine-grained consumption billing.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Hello and welcome to this December Server and StorageIO update newsletter.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

Another industry activity involving servers storage I/O networking hardware software and virtualization (aka software defined) was the general announcement (GA) by VMware of Virtual SAN (VSAN).

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Likewise 2014 so far is continuing the momentum living up to the mantra that while there may be economic challenges, there is no such thing as a data or information recession.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 29, 2015

Thus this months newsletter has a focus on data protection, after all March 31 is World Backup Day which means it should also be World Restore test day! A reminder on the importance of data protection including backup, BC, DR and related technologies is to make sure they are occuring as planned.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Enabling Recovery Points (Backup, Snapshots, Versions) Companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017) By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017 This is Part 4 of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools topics (..)

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Is more better for example (among others): Facebook likes Twitter followers or tweets (I’m @storageio btw) Google+ likes, follows and hangouts More smart phone apps LinkedIn connections People in your circle or community […].

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 27, 2017

Preparing For World Backup Day 2017 Are You Prepared In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Friday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day). The annual day is a to remember to make sure you are protecting your applications, data, information, configuration settings as well as data infrastructures.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It is fall (at least here in north America) which means conferences, symposium, virtual and physical events, seminars, webinars in addition to normal client project […].

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 12, 2015

announcement backup BC and DR big data Cloud converged convergence Data archiving and preservation Education fun I/O Networking IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics Lab report news object storage pod cast post programming review server Storage and Storage Management Tools Storage Architecture and Access tools Travel virtualization AWS Node.js

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Talking about tools and technologies is one thing, installing as well as trying them is the next step for gaining experience so how about some quick hands-on time with Microsoft Diskspd (download your copy here).

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 31, 2014

Enjoy this edition of the StorageIO Update newsletter and look forward to catching up with you live or online while out and about this fall.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Fall (here in North America) has been busy with in-person, on-line live and virtual events along with various client projects, research, time in the StorageIO cloud, virtual […].

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The new year is off and running with many events already underway including the recent USENIX FAST conference and others on the docket over the next few months.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 29, 2014

Here in the Stillwater MN area […] The post July 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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JANUARY 31, 2015

Green and Virtual IT Data Center Links Moving beyond Green Hype and Green washing Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list and going away, however, green IT for servers, storage, networks, facilities as well as related software and management techniques that address energy efficiency including power and cooling along with (..)

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list and going away, however, green IT for servers, storage, networks, facilities as well as related software and management techniques that address energy efficiency including power and cooling along with e-waste, environmental health and safety related issues are topics that wont be going (..)

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 18, 2015

On the other hand if you can not find what extra fee’s would be along with what is or is not included in a cloud service price, to quote Jenny’s line in the movie Forest Gump, "…Run, Forest!

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Sure you can go to a manufactures website and look at the speeds and feeds (technical performance numbers) however are those metrics applicable to your environments applications or workload?

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2015

However there are also many blogs at the vpad site that have a cloud, virtual, server, storage, networking, software defined, development and other related themes.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 31, 2014

The post April and May 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

StorageIO partners with the independent firm Brouwer Storage Consultancy of Holland […].

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 13, 2015

Also, keep in mind that only you can prevent data loss, are your restores ready for when you need them?

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

The post June 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

AWS and S3 storage gateway access alternatives include those from various third-party (including that are in the AWS marketplace), as well as via data protection tools (e.g. backup/restore, archive, snapshot, replication) and more commonly storage systems. Some tools include Cloudberry, S3FS, S3 motion, S3 Browser among many others.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

With world backup (and recovery) day coming up on March 31, it makes sense to plan, review, assess, remediate, test and prepare in advance, to avoid or prevent a disaster later.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

First a reminder world backup (and recovery) day is on March 31. Volume 17, Issue III Hello and welcome to the March 2017 issue of the Server StorageIO update newsletter.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 21, 2017

From consumer to small/medium business (SMB), enterprise to web-scale and cloud-managed service providers, physical to virtual, spanning structured database (aka “little data”) to unstructured big data and very big fast data, a lot is happening today.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 28, 2016

This months feature theme and topics include backup (and restore) as part of data protection, more on clouds (public, private and hybrid) including how some providers such as DropBox are moving out of public cloud providers such as AWS building their own data centers. and some of their research.

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