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University of Washington and Microsoft researchers win award for DNA-based data storage

GeekWire

Microsoft’s Karin Strauss and the University of Washington’s Luis Ceze have earned the 2020 Maurice Wilkes Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture. (UW It’s named after the British computer scientist who built the first operational stored-program computer.

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Fall 2015 Server Storage I/O Cloud Virtual Seminars Going Dutch

Storage IO Blog

It’s that time of the year again where the fall 2015 events and activities are underway which also includes a week of sessions in Holland October 13-16.

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February 2015 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

Hello and welcome to this February 2015 Server and StorageIO update newsletter. 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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January 2015 Server StorageIO Industry Trends Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

Hello and welcome to this January 2015 Server and StorageIO update newsletter. Its 2015 and the new year is off and running picking up where 2014 left off. January is typically a relatively quiet month when it comes to technology announcements and other industry activity.

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EMCworld 2015 How Do You Want Your Storage Wrapped?

Storage IO Blog

Back in early May I was invited by EMC to attend EMCworld 2015 which included both the public sessions, as well as several NDA based discussions. EMC covered my hotel and registration costs to attend the event in Las Vegas (thanks EMC, that’s a disclosure btw ;) and here is a synopsis of various EMCworld 2015 announcements.

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Data Protection Diaries: Are your restores ready for World Backup Day 2015?

Storage IO Blog

In case you forgot or did not know, World Backup Day is March 31 2015 (@worldbackupday) so now is a good time to be ready. The only challenge that I have with the World Backup Day (view their site here) that has gone on for a few years know is that it is a good way to call out the importance of backing up or protecting data.

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Server StorageIO December 2015 Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

This is also that time of year where predictions for 2016 will start streaming out as well as reflections looking back at 2015 appear (more on these in January). Overall 2015 has been a very good year with many things in the works both public facing, as well as several behind the scenes some of which will start to appear throughout 2016.

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