Platform as a service seems to be a solution made in heaven for organizations with large and growing data storage needs. Sometimes however, organizations have both high volumes of data, and high value data, for which security and intrusion-prevention are significant concerns. This can be true in medical services organizations, where there may be many users, not all of whom are tech-savy, or in retail organizations, where there may be a great number of sales associates with varying degrees of…

Power and thermal management in the data center are likely to be among the top five priorities in 2012 for data center managers. More detailed awareness and control of data center energy resources can ultimately help to contain energy costs, which are estimated to comprise approximately 70 percent of data center operational costs, according to the Forrester Research Report: “Updated Q3 2011: Power and Cooling Heat Up the Data Center.” 



Without proper power and…

New DCIM solution set to slash costs, reduce downtime and automate laborious provisioning, network planning, implementation and operational tasks 

Tel Aviv, Israel – January 17, 2012 – RiT Technologies (NASDAQ: RITT) today launched the RiT CenterMind™ Solution, a new approach to data center infrastructure management (DCIM), which enables data center managers to optimize…

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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…

Drew Robb has a good article about what IT industry pundits including vendors, analysts, and advisors loath including comments from myself.

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Wrapping up 2011 and getting ready for 2012, here is a list of the top 25 new posts from this past year at StorageIOblog.

Looking back, here is a post about industry trends, thoughts and perspective predictions for 2010 and 2011 (preview…

2011 is over, so its wrap up time of the year as well as getting ready for 2012.

Here is a link to a post of the top 25 new posts that appeared on StorageIOblog in 2011.

As a companion to the above,  here is a link to the…

Im in the process of wrapping up 2011 and getting ready for 2012. Here is a list of the top 25 all time posts from  StorageIOblog covering cloud, virtualization, servers, storage, green IT, networking and data protection. Looking back, here is 2010 and 2011  industry trends, thoughts and perspective predictions along with looking forward,…