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Cloud conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid and Community Clouds? (Part II)
This is the second of a two part series, read part I here. Common community cloud conversation questions include among others: Who defines the standards for community clouds? The members or participants, or whoever they hire or get to volunteer ... Read More »
Cloud conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid what about Community Clouds? (Part 1)
Have you heard of a community clouds? Cloud computing including cloud storage and services as products, solutions and services offer different functionality and enable benefits for various types of organizations, entities or individuals. Public clouds, private clouds and hybrids leveraging ... Read More »
Thanks for viewing StorageIO content and top 2012 viewed posts
2012 was a busy year (it was our 7th year in business) along with plenty of activity on StorageIOblog.com as well as on the various syndicate and other sites that pickup our content feed (http://storageioblog.com/RSSfull.xml). Excluding traditional media venues, columns, ... Read More »
Putting some VMware ESX storage tips together
Have you spent time searching the VMware documentation, on-line forums, venues and books to decide how to make a local dedicated direct attached storage (DAS) type device (e.g. SATA or SAS) be Raw Device Mappings (RDM)? Part two of this ... Read More »
Cloud conversation, Thanks Gartner for saying what has been said
Thank you Gartner for your statements concurring and endorsing the notion of clouds can be viable, however do your homework, welcome to the club. Why am I thanking Gartner? Simple, I appreciate Gartner now saying what has been said for ... Read More »
Many faces of storage hypervisor, virtual storage or storage virtualization
Storage hypervisors were a 2012 popular buzzword bingo topic with plenty of industry adoption and some customer deployment. Separating the hype around storage hypervisors reveals conversations around storage virtualization and virtual storage. Cloud and virtualization components Storage virtualization along with ... Read More »
Congratulations Imation and Nexsan, are there any independent storage vendors left?
Last week Imation, the company that is known for making CDs, DVDs, magnetic tape and in the past floppy disk (diskettes) bought Nexsan, a company known for the SATA and SAS storage products. Imation is also (or should be) owns ... Read More »
Cloud conversations: Gaining cloud confidence from insights into AWS outages
This is the first of a two-part industry trends and perspectives series looking at how to learn from cloud outages (read part II here). In case you missed it, there were some public cloud outages during the recent Christmas 2012-holiday ... Read More »
The Human Face of Big Data, a Book Review
My copy of the new book The Human Face of Big Data created by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt arrived yesterday compliments of EMC (the lead sponsor). In addition to EMC, the other sponsors of the book are Cisco, VMware, ... Read More »
Predictions, did Mayans have it right, or did we read it wrong?
It is late in the day December 12, 2012 and best I can tell, we are still here, and for some, by time you read this it will be a few days or weeks later which means that either the ... Read More »
