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Little data, big data and very big data (VBD) or big BS?
This is an industry trends and perspective piece about big data and little data, industry adoption and customer deployment. If you are in any way associated with information technology (IT), business,...
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How many degrees separate you and your information?
In case you are not familiar, degrees of separation refer to how you are connected to other people. When you know somebody directly then you are a first connection, and you are a second degree of...
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SSD past, present and future (podcast)
Now also available via This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content...
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Have SSDs been unsuccessful with storage arrays (with poll)?
I hear people talking about how Solid State Devices (SSDs) have not been successful with or for vendors of storage arrays, particular legacy storage systems. Some people have also asserted that...
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Podcast: vBrownbags, vForums and VMware vTraining with Alastair Cooke
Now also available via . This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content...
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Garbage data in, garbage information out, big data or big garbage?
Do you know the computer technology saying, garbage data in results in garbage information out? In other words even with the best algorithms and hardware, bad, junk or garbage data put in results in...
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SSD, flash and DRAM, DejaVu or something new?
Recently I was in Europe for a couple of weeks including stops at Storage Networking World (SNW) Europe in Frankfurt, StorageExpo Holland, Ceph Day in Amsterdam (object and cloud storage), and Nijkerk...
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Is SSD only for performance?
Normally solid state devices (SSD) including non-persistent DRAM, and persistent nand flash are thought of in the context of performance including bandwidth or throughput, response time or latency,...
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Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and IRM
There are many business drivers and technology reasons for adopting data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and infrastructure Resource Management (IRM) techniques, tools and best practices....
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Ceph Day Amsterdam 2012 (Object and cloud storage)
Recently while I was in Europe presenting some sessions at conferences and doing some seminars, I was invited by Ed Saipetch (@edsai) of Inktank.com to attend the first Ceph Day in Amsterdam. As luck...
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Seven databases in seven weeks, a book review of NoSQL databases
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement) is a book written Eric Redmond (@coderoshi) and Jim Wilson (@hexlib), part of The Pragmatic Programmers (@pragprog)...
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Hardware, Software, what about Valueware?
I am surprised nobody has figured out how to use the term valueware to describe their hardware, software or services solutions, particular around cloud, big data, little data, converged solution...
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HPs big December 3rd storage announcement
HP has been talking and promoting for several weeks (ok, months) their upcoming December 3rd storage announcements from the HP discovery event in Frankfurt Germany. The December 3rd embargos have been...
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Storage comments from the field and customers in the trenches
When I was in Europe presenting some sessions at conferences and doing some seminars last month I meet and spoke with one of the attendees at the StorageExpo Holland event. The persons name (Han...
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Predictions, did Mayans have it right, or did we read it wrong?
It is late in the day December 12, 2012 and best I can tell, we are still here, and for some, by time you read this it will be a few days or weeks later which means that either the Mayan calendar had...
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December 2012 StorageIO Update news letter
br/>December 2012 News letterWelcome to the December 2012 year end edition of the StorageIO Update news letter including a new format and added content.You can get access to this news letter via...
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The Human Face of Big Data, a Book Review
My copy of the new book The Human Face of Big Data created by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt arrived yesterday compliments of EMC (the lead sponsor). In addition to EMC, the other sponsors of the...
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Cloud conversations: Gaining cloud confidence from insights into AWS outages
This is the first of a two-part industry trends and perspectives series looking at how to learn from cloud outages (read part II here). In case you missed it, there were some public cloud outages...
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Congratulations Imation and Nexsan, are there any independent storage vendors...
Last week Imation, the company that is known for making CDs, DVDs, magnetic tape and in the past floppy disk (diskettes) bought Nexsan, a company known for the SATA and SAS storage products....
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Many faces of storage hypervisor, virtual storage or storage virtualization
Storage hypervisors were a 2012 popular buzzword bingo topic with plenty of industry adoption and some customer deployment. Separating the hype around storage hypervisors reveals conversations around...
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