Part II: Revisiting re:Invent 2014 and other AWS updates

This is part two of a two-part series about Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2014 and other recent cloud updates, read part one here.

AWS re:Invent announcements

Announcements and enhancements made by AWS during re:Invent…

Revisiting re:Invent 2014 and other AWS updates

A few weeks ago I attended…

Server Storage I/O Cables Connectors Chargers & other Geek Gifts

This is part one of a two part series for what to get a geek for a gift, read part two here.

It is that time of the year when annual predictions are made for the upcoming year, including those that will be repeated next year or that were also made last year.

It's…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today…

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.…

This is the first part of a two part series covering EMC VFCache, you can read the second part here.

EMC formerly…

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…

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.

In the article…

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,…

For being a declared dead or zombie technology (here, here or here) tape remains very much alive however its role is changing. There is no disputing that hard disk drives (HDDs)…

Here is a link to a recent guest post that I was invited to do over at The Virtualization Practice (TVP)…

What do VARs and Clouds as well as MSPs have in common?

Several things it turns out:

• Some Value Added Resellers (VARS) (links to VAR related content and comments here, here and…

NetApp announced earlier this year that it was planning on doing another acquisition following on their recent purchase of Bycast (policy based storage and management software).…

I recently did a couple of Industry Trends and Perspectives webcast events around the topic and themes of End to End (E2E) awareness and cross domain (or technology) management insight for cloud, virtual and other abstracted as well as physical IT environments. The…

Despite having been repeatedly declared dead at the hands of some new emerging technology over the past several decades, the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) continues to evolve as it moves towards its 60th birthday. More recently HDDs have been…

I recently did an interview with the folks over at Infortrend (a RAID storage company) discussing various industry trends and perspectives including…