The IT industry has witnessed a huge revolution over the past decade. These days people prefer to shop everything, right from car insurance to grocery, over the web and this is why the IT industry has faced a huge boom. While there are countless technological advancements, VPS hosting or virtual private servers is one of the most popular of all and there are significant reasons behind this trend.…

Data centers are referred as Internet’s core. The computer servers that influences internet call these centers their accommodation. If you wonder of how many billions of online transactions that take place every day you will surely be amazed to know that the final destination where all these transactions are stored is nothing else but a…

Meeting the changing needs of space requirements in a data storage system is an obstacle that has proven difficult for many companies to negotiate over the years.

For example, more and more medical facilities have switched to completely electronic medical records. Such changes place a huge burden in way of storage on an existing network infrastructure. Other times, these problems have come from self-inflicted origins. More often than not, this is a result of inadequate…

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,…

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…