Storage IO Blog

JULY 29, 2013

Tiering technology and the right data center tool for a given task Depending on who or what is your sphere of influence, or your sources of information and insight are, there will be different views of tiering, particular when it comes to tiered storage and storage tiering for cloud, virtual and traditional environments.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 31, 2014

Is there an information recession where you are creating, processing, moving or saving less data? Are you using less data storage than in the past either locally online, offline or remote including via clouds? Are you using less storage? With Polls) appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points. Likewise VVOL’s are not accessed using any of the various object storage access methods mentioned above (e.g.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

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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Storage IO Blog

JULY 19, 2013

HDDs for cloud, virtual and traditional storage environments This is a follow-up to a recent series of posts on Hard Disk Drives (HDD’s) along with some posts about How Many IOPS HDD’s can do. HDD and storage trends and directions include among others HDD’s will continue to be declared dead into the next decade, just [.].

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Fall 2013 Dutch cloud, virtual and storage I/O seminars It is that time of the year again when StorageIO will be presenting a series of seminar workshops in the Netherlands on cloud, virtual and data storage networking technologies, trends along with best practice techniques.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

In case you missed it, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) recently released their version 1.1 of its Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) specification. of its Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) specification.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

AWS made several announcements at re:invent including many around development tools, compute and data storage services. One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. SQL Server among others).

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There are different reasons for benchmarking, such as, you might be asked or want to know how many IOPs per disk, Solid State Device (SSD), device or storage system such as for a 15K RPM (revolutions per minute) 146GB SAS Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Recently seven plus year old cloud storage startup Nirvanix announced that they were finally shutting down and that customers should move their data. Nirvanix has also posted an announcement that they have established an agreement with IBM Softlayer (read about that acquisition here) to help customers […].

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2015

Some of those tools and technologies are open-source or free, some are freemium and some are premium for a few that also vary by interface (some with GUI, others with CLI or APIs) including ability to mount an S3 bucket as a local network drive and use tools to sync or copy.

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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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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Enjoy this edition of the Server and StorageIO update newsletter and watch for new tips, articles, StorageIO lab report reviews, blog posts, videos and podcasts along with in the news commentary appearing soon.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder It’s that time of year again, World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder. In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Saturday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day).

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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

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

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

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.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […].

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

announcement backup BC and DR big data Cloud convergence Data and Information Management Data archiving and preservation Data footprint and proliferation reduction Data protection Data security database DCIM Green IT I/O Networking Infrastructure Resource Management IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics little data object storage Performance (..)

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

backup BC and DR big data Cloud Comment converged Data protection database Education fun I/O Networking IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics music perspective pod cast post server ssd Storage Architecture and Access tools Travel virtualization evo:rail vmware VMworld'

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 10, 2013

During the recent EMCworld event there were some questions among attendees what about backup and data protection announcements (or lack there of)? Modernizing Data Protection Today EMC announced enhancements to its Backup Recovery Solutions [.].

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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

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

JULY 10, 2014

In case you missed it today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Zocalo an enterprise class storage and file sharing service. The post AWS adds Zocalo Enterprise File Sync Share and Collaboration appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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). Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g. more than simply selling servers and networking hardware).

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 10, 2013

This is the second part of a two-part series on recent EMC backup and data protection announcements. In addition to articulating their strategy for modernizing data protection (covered in part I here), EMC announced enhancements to Avamar, Data Domain, Mozy and Networker. Data protection storage [.].

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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

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

JUNE 24, 2013

Other items include backup and data protection topics for SMBs, as well as big data storage topics. [.].

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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

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 21, 2019

Driving ROI with Cloud Storage Consolidation Seminars Driving ROI with Cloud Storage Consolidation Seminars Join me in a series of in-person seminars driving ROI with cloud storage consolidation for unstructured file data. The post Driving ROI with Cloud Storage Consolidation Seminars appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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

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 7, 2017

Cloud products and services among others, along with associated data infrastructures including object storage, file systems, repositories and access methods are at the center of bulk, big data, big bandwidth and little data initiatives on a public, private, hybrid and community basis.

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