In addition to advisory along with custom research or consultancy activities, StorageIO periodically publishes industry trends perspectives reports, white papers as well as solution briefs. These free resources are in addition to regular blog postings, twitter tweets, articles, tips, FAQs, videos, pod casts, webinars along with in person speaking and keynote events around the world. Check out books by StorageIO founder Greg Schulz pertaining to IT data center and data infrastructures covering servers, storage, I/O networking, hardware, software, services, cloud, virtualization, data protection and resource management among other related topics here. View press mentions, perspectices, quotes, comments and interviews pertaining to industry news activity at the Server and StorageIO news page.
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January 2009 - The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC)
ISBN-10: 1420086669 and ISBN-13: 978-1420086669
Hardcover Approximately 376 pages Over 100 Illustrations, Figures and Tables
The Green and Virtual Data Center sets aside the political aspects of what is or is not considered green to examine the opportunities for organizations trying to grow their business while being environmentally friendly in an economically efficient manner. Addressing multiple technology domains and disciplines, this booklooks at design and implementation tradeoffs using various best practices and technologies to sustain application and business growth while maximizing IT resources, such as power, cooling, floor space, storage, server performance, and network capacity along with management software tools.
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September 2008 - Enabling a Green and Energy Efficient Storage with Real-time Compression - For environments looking to address power, cooling, floor space and environmental (PCFE) Green footprint issues, a data footprint reduction strategy across different applications and data types including on-line and off-line data should be adopted as part of a PCFE strategy. |
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July 2008 - Real-time Data Compression Integrity and Reliability - This brief looks at how loss less Lempel-Ziv (LZ) type real-time data compression provides data integrity while reducing data footprint for on-line active NAS primary storage. LZ compression is a proven technique for data footprint reduction that scales with stability as more data is ingested without introducing performance bottlenecks during writes (compressing) or reads (un-compress).
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July 2008 - Real-Time Data Compression Performance Considerations - This industry trends and perspective solution brief looks at performance considerations and impacts of real-time data compression for active data on-line primary NAS storage as part of a organization wide, application independent data footprint reduction strategy.
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July 2008 - Real-time Data Compression for On-line Active Data - For organizations wanting to address power, cooling, footprint and environmental (PCFE) issues, a holistic data footprint reduction strategy should be pursued. A data footprint strategy should include real-time data compression of changing and static on-line data while using de-duplication of recurring backup data and archive for in-active data. This solution brief looks at how and where real-time data compression of active on-line data, including primary NAS and secondary storage, can be used to achieve data footprint reduction benefits across a wide range of applications in organizations of all sizes.
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April 2008 - Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) - If you have not yet heard of the emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology or one of the vendor marketing terms including Data Center Ethernet (DCE), I/O Virtualization (IOV), Converged Network Architecture (CAN) or Data Center Fabrics leveraging a hybrid premium Ethernet with low latency and Quality of Service (QoS), rest assured, you will soon. This StorageIO Industry Trends and Perspective looks at what FCoE is, why it is important to be aware of and where it may fit in your environment in the future.
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December 2006 - Decrypting Enterprise Storage Security: A look at enterprise storage system security strategies, options and issues for data at rest and in-flight. - Data security, encryption, key management, security strategy, aligning technology to specific needs and requirements.
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December 2006 - Addressing Storage Management Challenges: A look at addressing storage and data management challenges using ultra scalable NAS - Data and storage management challenges, point-in-time (pit) snapshot copy, iSCSI, virtualization, ultra scalable NAS, iSCSI, high performance, clustered storage, replication, thin provisioning, policy based automated data migration.
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Resilient Storage Networks - Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructure (Elsevier)
ISBN 1-55558-311-3 * Paperback * 443 pages * Approximately 150 Illustrations
Resilient Storage Networks looks at storage and storage networking from a technology, and vendor neutral standpoint including coverage or performance, capacity planning, security, design, topologies and scaling, local and wide area, lifecycle management and data access among other topics. |
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