The fall 2011 Storage Networking World (SNW) show is just around the corner and will be held next week at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida. SNW is the world’s largest storage, data center, and IT infrastructure conference and brings together top information from information technology executives, leading product and service providers, and [...]
Each year at the annual Flash Memory Summit, flash designers, system engineers, and OEMs converge to discuss the latest trends and updates within the growing solid state memory market. The Flash Memory Summit hosted more than 1,500 participants this year at the Santa Clara Convention Center, where…
Last time I wrote about the enormous and growing demand of digital storage consumption worldwide. This week, let’s cover the technology improvements and developments of the hard disk drive (HDD) and note some of the tremendous changes made over the past 50+ years. And in the near future of this…
Energy efficiency is goodness, never more than this year. That’s reflected in the IT industry with a never-more-than-now focus on reducing power consumption. But some of the most valuable efficiency improvements are the ones that go beyond the obvious. 1. Do less. This is the obvious…
Another sign of the rising importance of power consumption in storage: IT is getting a high-octane tool to objectively assess the energy efficiency of storage systems and components. The Storage Performance Council has unveiled a new energy efficiency benchmark, SPC-1C/E. The new test is an…
Jon Toigo has a thoughtful view of the Fight for the Data Center currently underway between Cisco, IBM and others. Jon posits that the best solution of all would be an open systems mainframe model. His reasoning on the value of the mainframe is compelling. He shows evidence that the industry is inexorably returning to [...]
Data de-duplication is one of those topics that can be confusing. The technology itself is pretty straightforward, but many people are talking about it in different contexts, sometimes spun a bit to advantage their solution or approach to storage. InfoStor’s special report on de-duplication provides a fairly objective overview on the topic, penned by SNIA [...]
Kessler International recently bought 100 PC disk drives in bulk on eBay. Using the forensic equivalent of dumpster diving, they were able to recover private information, including corporate financial data, from 40 of them. That’s right – 40% of the drives contained sensitive information…
Browse through IT equipment of the past at IBM’s Antique Attic. I like old stuff and craftsmanship – it’s refreshing to see wood and brass part of an information processing solution. IBM’s impressive collection brings some long-term perspective to what IT is all about.…
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