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 2012 and 2013 thoughts and perspectives here).

Here are the top 25 new blog posts from 2011

• Are Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) getting too big?
• Buzzword Bingo and Acronym Update V2.011
• Cloud  conversations: Loss of data access vs. data loss
• Cloud, virtualization and storage networking conversations
• Commentary on Clouds, Storage, Networking, Green IT and other topics
• Congratulations to IBM for releasing XIV SPC results
• Convergence: People, Processes, Policies and  Products
• Industry adoption vs. industry deployment, is  there a difference?
• Industry trend: People plus data are aging and living longer
• Is FCoE Struggling to Gain Traction, or on a normal adoption course?
• Measuring Windows performance impact for VDI planning
• NetApp buying LSIs Engenio Storage Business Unit
• New Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive (SSD and HDD)
• Securing data at rest: Self Encrypting Disks  (SEDs)
• SMB, SOHO and low end NAS gaining enterprise features
• SNW Fall 2011 revisited and SNIA Emerald program
• Speaking of speeding up business with SSD storage
• Supporting IT growth demand during economic uncertain times
• Tape talk time
• The blame game: Does cloud  storage result in data loss?
• Unified storage systems showdown: NetApp FAS vs. EMC VNX
• VMware vSphere v5 and Storage DRS
• What am I hearing and seeing while out and about
• What records will EMC break in NYC January 18, 2011?
• Who is responsible for vendor lock in?

Check out the companion posts of the top 25 all time posts here as well as 2012 and 2013 predictions preview here.

Ok, nuff said for now

Cheers gs