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Green Storage is Alive and Well: ENERGY STAR Enterprise Storage Stakeholder Meeting Details

July 1, 2009 – 11:16 am
While Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list if not already extinct, there are many things taking place to shift the focus from talking about being green to enabling and leveraging efficiency and optimization to boost productivity and enable business sustainability. The industry has seen and is seeing the shift from the initial green hype cycle of a few years ago to the more recent trough of disillusionment (or here) typically found with a post technology or trend hangover, to the current re-emergence, and growing awareness of the many different faces and facets of being green. Granted there has been some recent activity by the U.S. government to add new climate control legislation (e.g. HR2454 - Waxman/Markey) to build on previous clean air acts of the 1990s as well as those dating back to the 1970s and earlier. While the green gap (or here) still exists with confusion ...

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Big Fish and Small Fish – Fish story or the one that did not get away?

June 27, 2009 – 11:23 am
Its been a very busy year and we are not quite half way through 2009 yet. For those who follow or read this blog as well as other venues where I have material appear, or provide interviews, quotes and perspectives, or have appeared in person, you probably have caught on that its been a busy year for me. However, all work and no play makes for a dull day and recently as things have finally settled down just a bit for a few weeks during the early summer time of the year, I have been able to get out and enjoy the out doors including fishing to which I must prefer over golf (I don't have the patience for the game ;) ). However, as is often the case when relaxing, some things can be come clear, new ideas come to mind and one such recent one is the notion of ...

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Funeral for a Friend

June 27, 2009 – 10:12 am
Spring is not supposed to be a time for send offs, after all, its supposed to be the time when things come to life or refresh from winter sleep or hibernation such plants, flowers, trees, grass, spring animals, fishing opening after spawning not to mention spring weddings. With the passing this week of Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, you might think that's the funeral for a friend I'm referring. While I have fond memories of Ed McMahon as Johnny Carson's side kick on the tonight show, that's not the funeral for a friend. Likewise, who can forget Farah Fawcett and her poster, even though we share something in common, that is she died in the same hospital that I was born in, that's not the funeral I'm referring to. Image courtesy of www.mostlyposters.com Neither is the passing of Michael Jackson that is not only flooding the media, its ...

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Introducing US HR2454 – Waxman-Markey Climate Bill

June 14, 2009 – 9:14 am
US HR2454 - Waxman-Markey Climate Bill In case you have not heard yet... On a related note to a recent post pertaining to energy efficiency vs. energy avoidance and common perception that Green IT is all about carbon footprints (e.g. the Green Gap), here's some material for those who like to read or talk about carbon and emissions trading schemes (ETS). Currently in the US congress, there is legislation making the rounds generically called the Waxman-Markey Climate Change bill or also known as HR2454 e.g. American Clean Energy and Security Act (coverage here, here, here and here among others). This is the latest version at a clean energy and climate bill and its effects or impacts on IT or business is yet to be clear, other than a presumed tax increase of some form such as a surcharge or fee tacked onto your energy bill as is the case today with other ...

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Shifting from energy avoidance to energy efficiency

June 14, 2009 – 8:33 am
I'm continually amazed at the number of people in the IT industry from customers to vendors, vars to media and even analysts who associate Green IT with and only with reducing carbon footprints. I guess I should not be surprised given the amount of rhetoric around Green and carbon both in the IT industry as well as in general resulting in a Green Gap. The reality as I have discussed in the past is that Green IT while addressing carbon footprint topics, is really more about efficiency and optimization for business economic benefits that also help the environment. From a near-term tactical perspective, Green IT is about boosting productivity and enabling business sustainability during tough economic times, doing more with less, or, doing more with what you have. On a strategic basis, Green IT is about continued sustainability while ...

Posted in Data archiving and preservation, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, Data protection, Data security, Education, Green, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, Infrastructure Resource Management, Performance and Capacity, Power and Cooling, Storage and Storage Management Tools, metrics, server | No Comments »

Catch of the day or post of the day!

June 12, 2009 – 3:11 pm
Ok, I know, its been a couple of weeks since my last post, sure I have been tweeting now and then, attending several briefings with new emerging as well as existing vendors for up-coming announcements, not to mention getting some other content out from webcasts, to podcasts, or videos, interviews, articles, tips and presentations at various events, not to mention working on some new content due to be out soon (no, not another book, that's further down the road a bit ;) )... Anyway, for now a quick post as I have many others that I have been wanting to do and will be doing soon, however wanted to get a few things out sooner vs. later, and after all, all work and no play makes for a dull day right? Well, last week after spending a couple of days in Chicago at Storage Decisions where I presented a couple of sessions ...

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Visit my new Amazon authors page

May 28, 2009 – 11:59 am
In addition to my books The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) being on Amazon, I now also have an Amazon Authors page. If you are an Amazon shopper, you may already know about authors pages, if, not, they are a feature available for book authors to tie together information about their books, blogs and other material in one venue, similar to what other social networking and medium sites provide. Visit my new authors page at Amazon.com by clicking here and if you have read either of my books, feel free to leave a review or comment, thanks in advance. Cheers gs Greg Schulz Technorati tags: The Green and Virtual Data Center, Resilient Storage Networks, CRC, Author, Amazon

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Help Save a Life!

May 22, 2009 – 2:31 pm
For those who have not seen or heard yet via one of the many different social networking venues, there is a person named Nick Glasgow age 28 who lives in the Bay Area who has Leukemia (AML). Nick (See video here) is in need of a bone marrow transplant and needs your help. I don't know Nick, however he works in the IT industry. Nick is 3/4 Caucasian and 1/4 Japanese - which is critical to the match. If you are, or know of anyone who might have this makeup, ask them to be tested to see if they are a match to be a donor. I know many other people in the industry and in the social networking universe who are also all trying to help in anyway they can to get the word out about Nick. Your help can be as simple as referring others to the site ...

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Hello From EMC World Bloggers Lounge

May 18, 2009 – 3:44 pm
EMC Blogger Lounge at EMCworld The day is looking up, it started out early, too early with a 7AM flight to Orlando leaving a nice sunny day in MSP arriving in MCO (that's Minneapolis and Orlando for those who don't use IATA airport codes) during a heavy rainstorm with plenty of storm clouds in the area ;) . Oh, for those concerned about green and flying, the Boeing 757 with a pretty full passenger load of about 150 including two search and rescue dogs (they were in the row behind me) got about 65 miles per gallon per passenger, not to shabby for the 2.5 hour flight. Once registered at the event, I attended an analyst session this afternoon that included a question and answer discussion session with Joe Tucci and other EMC folks. Now I'm spending a few minutes in the bloggers lounge (where there are also several twitters as ...

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R U Twittering Yet?

May 8, 2009 – 6:30 am
For those of you who are twitter fans, you can skip this post if you like as you are already twittering and know what it's about, however feel free to follow me if you are not already doing so @storage. On the other hand, for those of you new or not familiar with twitter (click here to learn more and sign-up) also known as micro blogging, is yet another venue and means to communicate, collaborate, network or what have you. In a nutshell, twitter messages, posts or tweets are 140 characters that appear on your twitter page for followers to view and respond to. For longer tweets or long URL's, tiny URL's can be used. You can also include other tweeters in a post so your post will appear on their pages for discussion. Tweets can also be forwarded to others via a RT or retweet. Tweets as they are refereed ...

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