Archive for the ‘IT Industry Activity’ Category
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
I have a new blog post over at Enterprise Efficiency about aging infrastructures including those involved with IT, Telcom and related ones.
As a society, we face growing problems repairing and maintaining the vital infrastructure we once took for granted.
Most of these incidents involve aging, worn-out physical infrastructure desperately in ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Here are some items that have been added to the main StorageIO website news, tips and articles, video podcast related pages that pertain to a variety of topics ranging from data storage, IO, networking, data centers, virtualization, Green IT, performance, metrics and more.
These content items include various odds and end ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
I recently asked for and received from Seagate (See recent post about them moving their paper head quarters to Ireland here) a Momentus XT 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5 Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (HHDD) to use in an upcoming project. That project is not to test a bunch of ...
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
I see some similarities and parallels between two competing companies. Those companies happen to be in the same sector (e.g. IT data storage) however offset by time (about a decade or) subject to continued execution by both.
Those two companies are EMC and NetApp.
Some people might assert that ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
With the 2010 summer solstice having occurred in the northern hemisphere that means it is time for a quick out and about update. It has been a busy winter and spring in the office, on the road as well as at home.
Some results of this ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Today the US Supreme Court ruled on a Nevada case involving constitutionality of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox) accounting regulations pertaining to appointments to the independent public company accounting oversight board.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Sarbox regulations or law remains intact, however the process or ...
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
This past week I was invited to join some fellow vExperts as a first time guest on Rich Brambleys (@rbrambley and VMETC) podcast show called Virtumania.
Episode 14 (Virtualization and Networking Turf Wars) had as a theme as you can guest themes around physical, logical and virtual networking ...
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
This week while traveling I received an email note from John Troyer of VMware informing me that I have been nominated and selected as a VMware vExpert for 2010.
To say that I was surprised and honored would be an understatement.
Thus, I would like to thank ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
June 2010 Newsletter
Welcome to the June 2010 edition of the Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO) newsletter. This follows the Spring 2010 ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
This is part of an ongoing series of short industry trends and perspectives blog posts briefs.
These short posts compliment other longer posts along with traditional industry trends and perspective white papers, research reports, solution brief content found at www.storageio.com/reports.
Are you clear on cloud conversation issues, topics and ...
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