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Top 10 blog posts for 2011
Happy Holidays. I ranked my blog posts using a ratio of hits to post age and have identified with the top 10 most popular posts for 2011 (so far): Vsphere 5 storage enhancements – We discuss some of the more … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Cognitive computing, Data integrity, Ethernet, FC, FCoE, IBM SyNAPSE chip, MIT analog brain chip, SSD storage, System effectiveness
Tagged Analog synapse simulation, BlueArc, Cognitive computing, Data loss, HDS, IBM Research, Intel SSD, neuromorphic computing, OCZ SNIA, SyNAPSE chip, VMware, vSphere 5
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IT as a service on the Cloud is not the end
[Long post] Read another intriguing post by David Vellente at Wikibon today about the emergence of IT shops becoming service organizations to their industries using the cloud to hosting these services. I am not in complete agreement with Dave but … Continue reading
One day with HDS
Attended #HDSday yesterday in San Jose. Listened to what seemed like the majority of the executive team. The festivities were MCed by Asim Zaheer, VP Corp and Product Marketing, a long time friend and employee, that came to HDS with the acquisition … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Corporate growth, Data analytics, Data growth, Disk storage, Executive leadership, File Storage, Information economy, Object storage, Server virtualization, SSD storage, Storage architecture, storage economics, Storage Features, Strategy
Tagged analyst meetings, HDS Influencers Summit, HDSday, Hitachi VSP, HNAS
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SSD news roundup
NexGen comes out of stealth NexGen Storage a local storage company came out of stealth today and is also generally available. Their storage system has been in beta since April 2011 and is in use by a number of customers … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Data QoS, Data reduction, Ethernet, SSD storage, Storage Features, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness
Tagged DRAM storage, LaCie storage, NexGen Storage, OCZ, Solid Fire Storage, SSD storage, Thunderbolt IO, TLC SSDs, TMS
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Is cloud a leapfrog technology?
Read an article today about Safaricom creating a domestic cloud service offering outside Nairobi in Kenya (see Chasing the African Cloud). But this got me to thinking that cloud services may be just like mobile phones in that developing countries … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud services, Cloud storage, Distributed computing, Information economy, Strategic Inflection Points, Visionary leadershp
Tagged Africa, CCID consulting, China cloud focus, Cloud computing, Cloud services, Cloud Storage, developing countries, land lines, leapfrog technologies, mobile phones, SAAS, WIMAX
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The sensor cloud comes home
We thought the advent of smart power meters would be the killer app for building the sensor cloud in the home. But, this week Honeywell announced a new smart thermostat that attaches to the Internet and uses Opower’s cloud service … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud services, Data, Data analytics, Data growth, Information economy, Strategic Inflection Points
Tagged 9/11 Memorial, Big data analytics, Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Ground Zero, Honneywell smart thermostat, infrastructure sensors, Opower cloud services, Sensor cloud, smart homes, smart power meters
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Shared DAS
An announcement this week by VMware on their vSphere 5 Virtual Storage Appliance has brought back the concept of shared DAS (see vSphere 5 storage announcements). Over the years, there have been a few products, such as Seanodes and Condor Storage … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud services, Clustered storage, DAS, Data grid, Distributed computing, Server virtualization, Storage architecture, Storage Features, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points
Tagged Amazon S3, Cloud Storage, Condor storage, EMC Isilon, Hadoop, Hadoop HDFS, Scale out NAS, Seanodes
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vSphere 5 storage enhancements
Twitter was all abuzz yesterday about the recent VMware vSphere 5 announcement. Although there were quite a few changes that came out, the ones of most interest to me were all in the data storage arena: DAS storage appliance – … Continue reading