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Data Centers

The First Mover Disadvantage

George Crump
November 19, 2009
There is always an advantage to being first to market with a new product or technology, except it seems, in storage and networking. It seems companies that are the first in the space have...
Data Centers

Deduplication's Five Modes

George Crump
November 02, 2009
I want to back up a bit in our deduplication discussion. I have had trouble bracketing the deduplication field thus far, and maybe there is a different approach. Let's discuss the modes of...
Data Centers

Will There Be Tiers Of SSD?

George Crump
October 22, 2009
I heard at Storage Networking World (SNW) that once storage finally moved to Solid State Disk (SSD) and there were no longer mechanical drives, there would be no more need for tiered...
Data Centers

Day 2 - Live From SNW

George Crump
October 13, 2009
Continuing our Live from SNW series, our first few entries for today are going to be catch up from yesterday's final briefings. As before these are all coming rapid fire so I ask your...
Data Centers

Here Comes SNW

George Crump
October 08, 2009
Next week is Storage Networking World (SNW) and I'll be there doing my normal semi-live blog updates as we work through each day of briefings. Seems like most of the storage community will...
Data Centers

Cloud Storage For IT

George Crump
October 06, 2009
Cloud storage is beginning to settle down and move past the hype wave and early adopter stage and into a real market. We are seeing the adoption of cloud storage architectures begin to move...
Data Centers

Virtualizing I/O

George Crump
October 01, 2009
Virtualization, whether it be server, storage, I/O or memory, typically becomes interesting to data center professionals when there is an excess of the resource being virtualized. Server...