What’s All This About Cloud Storage? Ask Me At Storage Decisions
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 15. Sep, 2009 | View Comments
Next week I will be returning to Storage Decisions after missing the last few in 2009. Although I’ve presented at dozens of TechTarget’s storage shows, this will be the first time I will be representing a vendor (Nirvanix) with a show floor booth.
Although my dislike for certain aspects of trade shows (especially booth babes and [...]
Join Me At CloudCamp Columbus, June 30, 2009!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 18. Jun, 2009 | View Comments
I’m really looking forward to joining the CloudCamp “unconference” movement, and will be heading to Columbus, Ohio, at the end of this month for my first Camp!
Preparing For Cloud and Virtualization Expo in Prague
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 05. May, 2009 | View Comments
The final approvals are in, and I’m pleased to announce that I will have speaking sessions at both of Sys-Con’s European Expos in Prague in two weeks’ time! I am very excited to be visiting “Praha matka měst” for the first time, but now have to work to get my sessions ready.
There is still time [...]
My Cloud Slam Topic: Enterprise Storage (Predictable?)
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 19. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
I am pleased to be part of Cloud Slam ‘09, the cloud computing virtual conference!
My presentation on Monday evening focuses on the emergence of cloud storage in the enterprise space: Why it’s important, what it is, and how to act on it. I start by talking about the drivers, including the unexpectedly high cost of [...]
Interested in VMware and Storage? Tune In to the VMware Communities Podcast!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 14. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
I’ll be joining John Troyer’s VMware Communities Podcast #44 tomorrow, April 14, and will be leading a segment focused on the changing storage landscape. I’m really looking forward to talking with John and the rest, since this is such a solid, fair, and content-rich podcast series!
Two New Storage Decisions Sessions for 2009: Capacity Management and Radical Tiered Storage!
Posted by Stephen in Everything on 24. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
I’m pleased to announce that I will be presenting at all four of TechTarget’s excellent end user-focused 2009 Storage Decisions conferences in North America! I’m also very excited to be developning two entirely new sessions for the show:
Tools and Tricks to Manage Capacity – Knowing how much disk capacity you have allocated, how much is [...]
Introducing Storage Magazine Online!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 28. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
Although the dead-tree version of TechTarget’s excellent Storage Magazine is no more, the company today released the premiere issue of its online counterpart! Available as both a web-based magazine and a PDF download, Storage Magazine Online continues with many of the same editors and writers, including Rich Castagna at the helm.
You can still subscribe to the [...]
Email Archiving 101 Webinar, January 8
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 07. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
Are you interested in learning the basics of email archiving? If so, I’ll be presenting a webinar on January 8, 2009, intended to introduce the topic to newcomers to the field!
Register online at Contoural’s web site!
E-mail Archiving 101: A Non-Technical Person’s Overview of How E-mail Archiving Works and How to Pick the Right Tool
Thursday, January [...]
Toronto Seminar: Do Canadians Virtualize?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 08. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
I’m off to beautiful Toronto, Ontario, Canada for tomorrow’s storage virtualization seminar. It will be very interesting to learn if there are differences between the two countries in terms of technologies employed or (more likely) business objectives served by server and storage virtualization technology. As I noted after my date with Charlotte, American companies are increasingly [...]
White Paper: Enhanced Archive Platforms with Agility for NetApp
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 04. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
NetApp just posted a white paper I wrote about storage platforms for archiving entitled Enhanced Archive Platforms with Agility and Performance.
The paper covers the following:
Reasons for archiving
Development of multi-source archives
Different data types (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured)
Flexibility as policies change
Legal hold
Maintaining performance with growth
Reacting to changing regulations
Archiving and the FRCP
Hop over to NetApp’s site to take a look [...]
