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, April 22nd, 2010
Here in the northern hemisphere it is late April and thus mid spring time.
That means the trees sprouting their buds, leaves and flowering while other plants and things come to life.
In Minnesota where I live, there is not a cloud in the sky today, the sun is out and ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
There are many different aspects of Green IT along with several myths or misperceptions not to mention missed opportunities.
There is a Green Gap or disconnect between environmentally aware, focused messaging and core IT data center issues. For example, when I ask IT professionals whether they ...
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
CCSE Facility and Seminar Series
This past week I had the honor of delivering a keynote presentation in San Diego at the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) as part of their continuing education and community outreach and education, workshop and seminar series. The theme ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
2011 is not a typo, I figured that since Im getting caught up on some things, why not get a jump as well.
Since 2009 went by so fast, and that Im finally getting around to doing an obligatory 2010 predictions post, lets take a look at both 2010 ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Following up on a recent previous post pertaining to US EPA Energy Star(r) for Servers, Data Center Storage and Data Centers, there will be a workshop held Tuesday February 2, 2010 in San Jose, CA.
Here is the note (Italics added by me for clarity) from the folks ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Following up on previous posts pertaining to US EPA Energy Star for Servers, Data Center Storage and Data Centers, here is a note received today with some new information. For those interested in the evolving Energy Star for Data Center, Servers and Storage, have a look at the following as ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
There is a ton of discussion, stories, articles, videos, conferences and blogs about the benefits and value proposition of cloud computing. Not to mention, discussion or debates about what is or what is not a cloud or cloud product, service or architecture including some perspectives and ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Some vendors are doing better than others and first generation MAID (Massive or monolithic Array of Idle Disks) might be dead or about to be deceased, spun down or put into a long term sleep mode, it is safe to say that second generation MAID (e.g. ...
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