Innovation is quite a common term for the people related to the field of information technology. In the race of being on top, companies were losing focus towards the protection of environment. The common example in this context is the data center that includes explicit planning of power, equipment and support. But, with the passage of time, many of the business owners have realized the significance of adopting environment friendly options so as to reduce the carbon footprint and live greener…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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)…

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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…

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

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Short post today. Does it bother you that you as a data center professional keep on hearing that you're being part of the blackest, most polluting industry around? And that, consequently, you are one of those greedy 'suits' for whom 'green' is just a PR tool?



If that is the case, Mark Thiele (CEO of Data Center Pulse) has written a blog post just for you. Read it, and… Continue

Mike Manos, the data center world's answer to Security's Bruce Schneier, has been doing his stuff now for a couple of months at Nokia. Techtarget interviewed him, asking him about what he sees as the biggest game changers in the industry.



The biggest game changer, according to him, is going to be climate change regulations, specifically the… Continue

Would this been posted to Data Center Knowledge about one-and-a-half month ago, I would have ignored it. But as it is not 1 April, this is way to good to pass up: HP have done a study about utilising cow manure as a source for power. The paper can be found here, and here is a video where Chandrakant Patel from HP… Continue

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