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BYOD and photos of my cat
25 March 2013 -
By Alex McDonald, SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative Chair (NetApp)
First published in SNS Europe - March 2013
BYOD. If that acronym doesnt strike fear into the heart of every chief exec or finance director, it should. Short for Bring Your Own Device, theres been a proliferation of new technology thats take the business world by storm; the tablet. More portable than a laptop, more connected than a mobile phone, these cross-over devices are incredibly popular, and rightly so. The flexibility they provide is truly amazing. Give a presentation, take photographs, jot down notes on the move, browse the internet, use business email and make calls, all from one easily transported device.
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Taking FC SANs to the next level with clustered/scalable SANs
25 March 2013 -
Published in SNS Europe - March 2013
Enterprises are struggling with the increasing amount of data that they need to store, manage, and back up. Across industries, file formats are richer and file sizes are growing. With the rapid increase in data growth and capacity, the need for fast and secure access to data 365 days x 24 hours a day with no downtime becomes paramount.
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Two Hot Trends for 2013
07 March 2013 -
Published in Datacenter Solutions - February 2013
Members of SNIAs Ethernet Storage Forum offer their views on the past, present and future, with a focus on consolidation, object storage and 10GBASE-T.
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Progress on solid state, ethernet and green storage
07 March 2013 - SNIAs Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) recently rolled out its new Workload I/O Capture Program, or WIOCP, a simple tool that captures software applications I/O activity by gathering statistics on workloads at the user level (IOPS, MB/s, response times queue depths, etc.) The WIOCP helps users to identify Hot Spots where storage performance is creating bottlenecks. SNIA hopes that users will help the association to collect real-use statistics on workloads by uploading their results to the SNIA website. Using this information SNIA member companies will be able to improve the performance of their solid state storage solutions, including SSDs and flash storage arrays.
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10GbE wird erwachsen
01 March 2013 - Published in DCS - DACH edition - March 2013
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IT Pro Report on Big Data: Sizing things up
28 January 2013 - IT Pro's Maggie Holland talks to the co-chair of the SNIAs analytics and Big Data Committee, Gilda Foss, about where she sees things heading and what firms can do to prepare. "I see the US and UK leading the industry with Big Data and analytics, says Gilda Foss, comparing the UK and the rest of Europe, the UK is ahead of the curve".
Technology is ever evolving, and one area where its growing is in the ability to collect and analyze huge datasets. It is exactly this trajectory of functionality that will lead to revolutionary advances in business as we know it today. Furthermore, the big data trend is rather a reality and not going anywhere as long as we keep tweeting, updating our Facebook status, posting photos and videos, we are creating massive amounts of data. There is tons of data all around us, and by tomorrow it will have grown by 2.5 exabytes.Whats important is that we take this amazing opportunity in front of us and turn into business value and information that will help us succeed as a whole.
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The New EU Data Protection Regulation
15 January 2013 - Gilles Chekroun, SNIA Europe Technology Chair & Board Member looks at the technical implications of the proposed new regulation on data protection.
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Neue Technologien für mehr IT-Effizienz im Rechenzenter
09 January 2013 Switzerland - Schlüsseltechnologien wie Virtualisierung, Cloud Computing und neue Services sowie neue Management-Technologien sind für viele Rechenzentrumsbetreiber und IT-Abteilungen die Chance für einen Umbau ihrer IT-Infrastrukturen. Dr. Markus Pleier, Vice Chairman, SNIA Europe & CTO EMEA, EMC Corporation erläutert, welche Technologien das Rechenzentren der Zukunft effizienter und energie-sparender machen.
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Big Data Gets Social
16 November 2012 - Gilda Foss, co-chair of the SNIA Big Data and Analytics Committee (NetApp) looks at the importance of business intelligence in uncovering the trends that consumers are following and targeting them accordingly on such mediums as social media.
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SCSI Express – Advancements in PCIe storage
15 November 2012 - SCSI Express is an emerging storage interface that runs Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) commands over a PCI Express (PCIe) link. It combines the enterprise-proven SCSI command set with the low latency of PCIe to create a powerful enterprise-class interface for the high-performance capabilities of SSD/flash storage. By Bret Gibbs, Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company, member, SCSI Trade Association.