Tag Archives: InfoStor

Happy New Year

by Sunshine on December 29, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

Tis the week for the “out of office” email messages. But the storage blogo-tweet-osphere waits for no man. Here are a few posts that caught my eye this week. Bas Raayman sees CPU power hitting the wall: The RAM per CPU wall Rick Vanover says 2010 could be the year for 10GigE – Will 2010 [...]

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SNW Revisited

by Sunshine on August 17, 2009 in Blogroll, Storage

InfoStor editor Dave Simpson has a post on his storage blog about how Storage Networking World (SNW) can get back some of its lost luster. As he notes, trade shows in general are feeling the pinch in the current recession and SNW-which just posted the agenda for its upcoming fall conference–is no exception. For the [...]

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Dedupe for Online – What’s Next?

by Carter George on July 10, 2009 in Featured, Storage

In the wake of the high profile Data Domain acquisition battle, data deduplication is the technology du jour. This has led to wide-ranging discussions on the topic, one of which is the question of where deduplication is being applied. A recent Wikibon article, “Pitfalls of compressing online storage” notes that Data Domain represents only one [...]

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Dedupe for Primary – Recent Coverage

by Sunshine on June 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

As we keep noting on this blog, data reduction is becoming the topic du jour as storage budgets are squeezed and deduplication becomes more and more viable and effective. Dave Simpson, Editor-in-Chief of Infostor, came out with a very thorough article today on primary storage optimization. It’s a practical guide for customers who may be [...]

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When You Only Have a Hammer…

by Carter George on May 7, 2009 in Analyst, File Systems, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

Nice to see Dave Simpson from InfoStor getting interested in the subject of dedupe for primary. Today, he had a new post on the topic, along with a plug for a webcast he’s doing on the topic with Noemi Greyzdorf of IDC. In the post, Dave makes the point that people are starting to muddy [...]

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What We’re Reading – April 28

by Sunshine on April 28, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

An interesting day today in that there isn’t too much in the way of hard news, but plenty o’ commentary floating around the old blog-o-tweet-o-news-o-sphere regarding storage. First, lots of buzz about Ocarina this past week: We earned a nice mention in the keynote address at BIO IT World, where Ocarina is in attendance and [...]

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InfoStor Revs up Blogs

by Sunshine on April 8, 2009 in Storage

As everyone in the industry knows, storage publication InfoStor is a great resource for news and views on storage. One area where it hasn’t been all that active was in the blogging arena. Well, all that is changing. Dave Simpson, Editor-in-Chief and Kevin Komiega senior editor, are both blogging as we speak, on site from [...]

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