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Featured Report Content
Enmotus FuzeDrive MicroTiering
Server Storage I/O Acceleration

Industry Trends Report Enabling Informed Decision Making
Metrics That Matter Analytics and Reporting Performance Optimization
Server, Storage, I/O Flash, NVM, NVMe, SSD, HDD

Enmotus FuzeDrive SSD micro tiering cache

Featured Topics and Trends
Cloud and Object Storage
objectstoragecenter.com

Cloud, Elastic, Scalable, Bulk Object Storage
S3, Swift, API, Active, Tiering, Data Protection, Big Data
Data Infrastructure, Server, Storage, Data Management

Featured Topics and Trends
NVMe Server Storage I/O
www.thenvmeplace.com

NVM, NVMe, NAND, Flash, 3D Xpoint, SSD, PCIe
Front-end, Back-end, U.2, M.2, NGFF, NVMeoF, FC-NVMe
Servers, Storage Systems and Appliance, CI, HCI, Cloud
Server Storage I/O Performance Optimization

Books by Greg Schulz
Practical Real World
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Technology Trends
Tips and Techniques
Data Infrastructure Topics

Server Storage I/O software-defined data infrastructure Books

Pictures Over Stillwater
Aerial Images and Video
UAS, UAV, Drones and More

Data Infrastructure Management - Insights and Strategies (CRC Press)
New (Jan 2019) book by Greg Schulz

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Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press)
By Greg Schulz
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Server StorageIO - Industry Analysts and Advisory Consultancy

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Enabling Flexible Scalable Resilient Data Infrastructures

Servers, Storage, I/O Networking, Hardware and Software

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Commentary

StorageIO provides industry trends perspectives, guidance, advice, assessment and thought leadership on data infrastructure technology, tools, products, services and techniques. Talking the talk, as well as walking the talk. Our commentary, perspectives and content appears in leading global venues.

Content

Check out some of our content, from events, ebooks, books, white papers, solution briefs, videos, webinars, articles, tips, columns, posts, thought leadership pieces, guest posts, research reports, Server StorageIOlab reports and technology test drives along with custom material and much more.

Consulting

From high-level vision and strategy to detailed planning, advisory consulting, custom projects including NDA activities. From hands-on testing, proof of concept to audits, custom research, surveys, technical sales and market research for your engineering or go to market assistance. View more here.

Recent Works and Activities

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Server StorageIO Content

Recent and popular Server StorageIO content (tips, articles, videos) and Industry Trends Perspectives commentary.

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StorageIOblog posts

Recent blog posts from Gregs Server StorageIOblog covering industry trends, tip, technologies and techniques topics.

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StorageIOlab Report

Recent and Popular Server StorageIOlab reviews, test drive and reports.

Azure Data Box Test Drive
Cloud Consolidate Model
Manage your AWS partner
Chelsio 25Gbps CNAs
Small Business NAS Buying Tips
Storage Admin skills
IoT Storage at the Edge
Secondary Data Storage
Hybrid Data Protection
Excelero NVMesh DB/DBaaS
Intel Optane NVMe U.2 SSD
Data Protection Fundamentals
HPE AMD DL385 Gen 10
Linux bash on Windows

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Upcoming and Recent Events

Recent and past webinar, in-person seminar and speaking events along with other activities. Visit our companion site PicturesOverStillwater.com to view sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial Systems), UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) aka Drone along with aerial photography, video, photogrammetry, classes, and related topics, events including 360 still and videos.

Welcome To Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO

Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO (e.g. StorageIO) is an independent IT advisory consultancy firm covering data infrastructure topics, trends, tools and techniques.

StorageIO focus and real-world hands on expertise areas include among others:

Cloud, Virtual, Containers, Software Defined

Legacy and Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC)

Hardware, Software and Services Technologies

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), NVMe, flash and SSD
Bulk and Object Storage, Hybrid, CI and HCI
Performance, Capacity Planning, Benchmarking
Data Protection, Backup, Archive, HA, BC, BR, DR
Education, knowledge transfer, skills development
Advisory Consulting, Strategy, Assessment
Public facing and confidential NDA services

Server StorageIO Founder Greg Schulz is an six time Microsoft MVP (Cloud and Datacenter Management)
Ten-Time VMware vExpert (and vSAN) as well as author of several books including Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC), Cloud and Virtual Storage Networking (CRC), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) among others.