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Are CIOs Being Given More Strategic Power?
06/29/2009 - by Ronaldo de Andrade
A colleague recently told me a CIO he had met expressed some anger regarding the traditional approach in which IT budgets had been managed in his business. His economic view reminded me of the lens by which all CIOs should see their departments > as an investment, not a cost...It's IOPS - Not IOPs
06/24/2009 - by Tony Asaro
Many storage system vendors use a measurement knows I/O's Per Second and the acronym is IOPS. However, many people mistakenly represent it as IOPs. For some reason they make everything else caps except for the "S". The "S" actually stands for seconds and is not a pluralization of IOP - which would stand for I/O/s Per - and that makes no sense. Just a pet peeve of mine :)Whither Thou iSCSI?
06/05/2009 - by Tony Asaro
Besides being the longest anagram in storage, iSCSI has had an uphill climb over the years to get where it has. I remember when the naysayers said that iSCSI would lose data and never be viable. I remember when people also thought that iSCSI wouldn't perform well and they were proven wrong.Energy Star Compliance for Servers & Storage
05/20/2009 - by Ronaldo de Andrade
How cool will it be to compare Dell, HP, and IBM server energy efficiency before you buy? This is real, it's out, and it's only going to get better. The storage industry will experience something similar soon...
