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Greg Schulz posted a discussionIf March 31st is backup day, dont be fooled with restore on April 1st
With March 31st as world backup day, hopefully some will keep recovery and restoration in mind to not be fooled on April 1st. When it comes to protecting data, it may not be a headline news disaster such as earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane or act of man, rather something as simply accidentally overwriting a file, not to mention virus or other more likely to occur problems. Depending upon who you ask, some will say backup or saving data is more…See More
Greg Schulz replied to Institute of DataCentre Engineer's post 'A road to green and sustainable data centre'"Here is some additional info:
Saving Money with Green IT: Time To Invest In Information Factories
http://storageioblog.com/?p=767
Also check out my book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC Press) at…"
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- Greg Schulz is an independent IT industry advisor, author, blogger and consultant. Greg has over 30 years of experience in across a variety of server, storage, networking, hardware, software and services platforms, architectures and paradigms. Greg gained his diverse industry insight experience from being in the trenches in IT data centers. He has held numerous positions including programmer, server and storage systems administrator, performance and capacity analyst, disaster recovery consultant, as well as a server and storage planner at companies including an electrical power generating & transmission utility, financial services and transportation firms. Shifting gears, Greg worked for several storage and networking companies in a variety of customer facing roles ranging from systems engineering and sales to marketing and Sr. technologists. After spending time as a customer and vendor, Greg became a Sr. Analyst at an IT analyst firm covering virtualization, SAN, NAS and associated storage management tools, techniques, best practices and technologies. In 2006, Greg leveraged those experiences of having been on the customer, vendor and analyst sides of the “IT table” to form the independent IT advisory consultancy firm Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO).
- My main areas of expertise are:
- Cloud Computing, DCiM, Disaster Management, Energy Management, Green Initiatives, Infrastructure Management, IT Management, Migration, Networks, Planning, Power Generation/Distribution, Racks/Enclosures, Servers, Storage, Test/Measurement, Tools, Virtualisation
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- Mr. Schulz has been involved with various storage related organizations including the Computer Measurement Group, Storage Networking Industry Association, and RAID Advisory Board among others. Greg is extensively published on a global basis and regularly appears in print, on-line as well as in person presenting and key note speaking at conferences, seminars and private events around the world on data infrastructure and related management topics. In addition to his thousands of reports, blogs, twitter tweets, columns, articles, tips, pod casts, videos and webcasts, Greg is also author of the books “The Green and Virtual Data Center” (CRC) and "Resilient Storage Networks – Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures” (Elsevier) in addition to being a co-author and contributor for many other book projects including “The Resilient Enterprise” (Symantec/Veritas). Greg is regularly quoted and interviewed as one of the most sought after independent IT advisors providing perspectives, commentary and opinion on industry activity. Greg has a B.A. in computer science and M.Sc. in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas. Learn more at www.storageioblog.com or twitter @storageio
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AWS (Amazon) storage gateway, first, second and third impressions
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:44 0 Comments 0 Likes
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today…
Continue EMC VFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching (Part II)
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:42 0 Comments 0 Likes
This is the second of a two part series pertaining to EMC VFCache, you can read the first part here.
In this part of the series, lets look at some common questions along with comments and perspectives.…
Continue EMC VFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching (Part I)
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:38 0 Comments 0 Likes
This is the first part of a two part series covering EMC VFCache, you can read the second part here.
EMC formerly…
Continue Researchers and marketers dont agree on future of nand flash SSD
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:36 0 Comments 0 Likes
Marketers particular those involved with anything resembling Solid State Devices (SSD) will tell you SSD is the future as will some researchers along with their fans and pundits. Some will tell you that the…
Continue Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking now on Kindle
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:23 0 Comments 0 Likes
It only makes sense that a book about Clouds, Virtualization, Data Storage and Networking be available via a cloud service in electronic format. Today Amazon and my publisher (CRC Press Taylor and Francis) released a Kindle version of my new book Cloud and Virtual Data Storage…
ContinueComment Wall (2 Comments)
- At 12:46 on January 21, 2012,
rizwan munir mansuri said… Hi Greg I am rizwan.Shall we become friends?
- At 0:21 on January 28, 2009,
DCPNet Admin said… - Welcome Greg. Good luck with the new book! I'll add it to the site bookstore soon.
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