CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

record in the second quarter of 2021, as attackers expand into vertical industries and target critical infrastructure. Another out-of-date belief is that frequent backups are the best recovery strategy. As more data continues to move to the cloud , ransomware follows. Ransom demands have also been growing. Close back doors.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Cloud conversations: Has Nirvanix shutdown caused cloud confidence concerns? Recently seven plus year old cloud storage startup Nirvanix announced that they were finally shutting down and that customers should move their data.

Cloud 86

Cloud Storage Backup Big Data 86

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

There is only one pathway forward and that involves making rapid and deep cuts in emissions – including at data centers and across the cloud computing industry that is absolutely fundamental and crucial for how we work and nearly everything we produce.”. – PeaSoup embraces environmental friendly immersive cooling for cloud services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

There is only one pathway forward and that involves making rapid and deep cuts in emissions – including at data centers and across the cloud computing industry that is absolutely fundamental and crucial for how we work and nearly everything we produce.”. – PeaSoup embraces environmental friendly immersive cooling for cloud services.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. Aurora is positioned as an alternative to traditional SQL based transactional databases commonly found in enterprise environments (e.g. SQL Server among others).

Cloud 83

Cloud Storage Backup Linux 83

Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

What does gaining industry traction or adoption mean too you? Is it based on popularity or how often something that is talked about, blogged, tweeted, commented, video or similar? What are the indicators that something is gaining traction?

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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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Backup Data Disaster Recovery Business Continuity 61

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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Backup Data Storage Vmware 40

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Is your company, organization or one that you are a fan of, or represent listed on the StorageIO industry links page?

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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 (..)

Backup 40

Backup Data Storage Trends 40

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g. 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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Vmware Cloud Storage Backup 60

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. Recently I [.].

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Storage Virtualization Cloud Backup 73

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 30, 2015

January is typically a relatively quiet month when it comes to technology announcements and other industry activity. However January is also time where there is a lot going on behind the scenes. This means that there are many things to watch for in the coming months, weeks or perhaps even days.

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Trends Industry Backup Storage 40

Storage IO Blog

JULY 31, 2013

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

That’s where EVP and CIO Kathy Kay found herself in coming to Principal Financial Group from PG&E in May 2020 with a desire to lead an aggressive plan to adopt digital technologies, ranging from the cloud to AI. We have a model now that will ingest the data and then suggest better ways of communicating things in a more complaint way.”

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Financial Insurance Cloud Enterprise 110

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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Backup Data Security Data Center 43

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 Virtualization Cloud Backup 67

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 18, 2015

Note that most reputable cloud providers do not hide their fees even though there are myths that all cloud vendors have hidden fees, instead they list what those costs are on their sites. However that means the smart shopper or person procuring cloud services needs to go look for those fee’s and what they mean to avoid surprises.

Storage 40

Storage Cloud Backup Big Data 40

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 Virtualization Cloud Backup 57

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients. Staff recruitment and retention.

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CTO Hire Architecture Applications Enterprise 105

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 12, 2015

It’s springtime in Kentucky and recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Kendrick Coleman to talk about S3motion, Buckets, Containers, Objects, AWS S3, Cloud and Object Storage, node.js, EMCcode and open source among other related topics which are available in a podcast here, or video here and available at StorageIO.tv.

Cloud 40

Cloud Storage Backup Open Source 40

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

Listen in to our podcast conversation here as we cover cloud, convergence, software defined and more pertaining to data storage. The post Data Storage Innovation Chat with SNIA Wayne Adams and David appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage Data Backup Big Data 72

Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

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Vmware Backup Travel Big Data 74

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). While the […] The post Preparing For World Backup Day 2017 Are You Prepared appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Backup Applications Data Disaster Recovery 40

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

JULY 10, 2013

A couple of months ago at EMCworld there were announcements around ViPR, Pivotal along with trust and clouds among other topics. During the recent EMCworld event there were some questions among attendees what about backup and data protection announcements (or lack there of)?

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Backup Data SAP Oracle 63

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 Backup Travel Big Data 79

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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SMB Storage Backup Big Data 83

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.

Storage 40

Storage Cloud Backup Open Source 40

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 Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise 71

Storage IO Blog

JUNE 24, 2013

In this edition coverage includes data center infrastructure management (DCIM), metrics that matter, industry trends, IBM buying Softlayer for Cloud, IaaS and managed services. Other items include backup and data protection topics for SMBs, as well as big data storage topics. [.].

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Backup IBM Big Data Storage 54

Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

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Virtualization Vmware Backup Storage 70

Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

In addition to announcing new higher performance Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) compute instances along with container service, another new service is AWS Lambda. Lambda is a service that automatically and quickly runs your applications code in response to events, activities, or other triggers.

Storage 74

Storage Backup Travel Big Data 74

Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Are you a virtualization or software defined person looking to create a small VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) needing three or more servers to build a proof of concept or personal lab system? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.

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Storage Software Software Vmware 82

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.

Storage 58

Storage Backup Travel Big Data 58

Storage IO Blog

MAY 31, 2014

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

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Storage Data Big Data Backup 68