The StorageIO Group - IT Industry Analyst and Consultants, the Green IT Computing Experts

A synopsis of recent portfolio entries can be found [ here ]. This page contains the portfolio library links and references to various industry commentaries, interviews, articles, web casts, books and other material pertaining to storage and storage networking hardware, software, management, performance, capacity planning, security, data protection, disaster recovery planning and other topics by Greg Schulz and StorageIO.

Greg Schulz is a frequent speaker at storage and storage networking related industry events and conferences around the world some of which are shown on this page. Following are selected articles and tips by the StorageIO group appearing in various venues pertaining to data storage infrastructure and management items including custom reports and white papers. [ Read more... ]

Selected Topic Categories	Featured Reports, White Papers, Articles and Tips
Power, Cooling, Data Footprint Reduction, Green and Environmental Topics	Tip - H ow to increase your storage energy efficiency - July 2007 Article - Storage Power and Cooling Issues Heat up - May 2007 Webinar - "Storage power and cooling" - June 2007 Article - PACE yourself to power and cooling needs - July 2007 Comments on the business case for green storage - October 2007 Comments on power, cooling and floor space issues - September 2007 Comments on Green IT and Storage marketing - July 2007 Comments on Green Storage Means Money Saved (From CIO) - May 2007 Additional information on power, cooling environmental and green related storage and data storage infrastructures topics can be found at www.greendatastorage.com
Server, Storage, NAS & Virtualization	Article - I/O Virtualization and Virtual I/O Comments - Pros and cons of NAS for SMB Video & Pod cast - Scaling storage with clustering Tip / Pod cast - Using SAS and SATA for tiered storage FAQ / Pod cast - FAN and file Virtualization Tip - Accessorizing, Customizing your NAS Tip - Storage Virtualization - Where and How Tip - Blade servers, blade center and connectivity check list Audio - SAN FAQ Article - PACE yourself to power and cooling needs Article - Clarifying storage cluster confusion Article - Storage virtualization, its more common than you think Article - Using NAS to manage files Article - NAS options for different environments Article - Virtualization deployment checklist Tip - Balancing costs and demands for storage allocation
Backup, Data protection, DR / BC and Management	Pod cast - File Archiving - April 2007 Disaster recovery channel opportunities Q&A - February 2007 Video interview - Addressing remote backup challenges White paper - Tips for ROBO data protection (May require registration) Tip - How far is far enough for DR purposes Tip - Automated data migration - Choosing technology for ILM Tip - Determining SMB Storage Options Tip - SMB backup options Article - Tape virtualization (VTL) deployment checklist Tip - Dealing with tape and media errors Tip - Planning for next generation backup
General, eDiscovery, Performance, and Capacity Planning	Tip - How to monitor SAN performance Opinion - The SMB Storage Gap Pod cast (download) - Addressing storage and I/O performance bottlenecks Article - 10 ways to secure your stored data Article - Storage Vocabulary Tip - Storage certification sources Tip - Leasing vs. buying storage Tip - Out of capacity - what now? Article - Considerations for data discovery, classification and indexing tools Article - Automate data recovery White Paper - Data Center I/O Performance Issues and Impacts Tip - Capacity Planning - Reclaiming Orphaned Storage - October 2006

Some of the buzzword, themed topics and technologies on this page include among others Archiving, Backup, Business Continuance (BC), Capacity Planning (CP), CAS, CDP, Classification, Clustering, Database, Data Protection, Disk Based Backup, Disaster Recovery (DR), Encryption, Fibre Channel, FICON, Grid, ILM, iSCSI, MAN, NAS, Networked Storage, Object Storage, Performance, RAID, SAN, SAS, SATA, SCSI, Security, SNIA, SRM, Storage Devices, Search, Storage Management, Storage Software, Storage Systems, Switches, Tape, Virtualization, VTL, WAFS and WAN.

Venue or Publication	Articles, Commentary, Interviews, Presentations, Speaking, Tips, Web casts
	Comments on business of all sizes needing to keep data accessible - October 2007
	Comments on real-time and on-line storage - November 2005
	Comments on InfiniBand, iSER, iWARP, RDMA, OpenFabric technologies - September 2006 StorageIO Press Release - March 8, 2006
	Opinion - A Storage Letter to SANta - December 2007 Opinion - The SMB Storage Gap - September 2007 Opinion - Keeping IT "Green" this summer - August 2007 Opinion - Zombie technologies, mature technologies - March 2007 Opinion - Hybrid Storage - December 2006 Comments on Brocade 8GFC Director, Backbone Data Center Fabric Platform - January 2008 Comments on Seagate selling technology to Xiotech - November 2007 Comments on VTL and clustered or grid solutions - November 2007 Comments on VTL and data footprint reduction including de-duplication - November 2007 Comments on IBM green energy efficiency certificates - November 2007 Comments on power and cooling challenges as opposed to green wash - September 2007 Comments on NEC and clustered storage for backup and archiving - September 2007 Comments and caveats when looking at MAID to address power and cooling - August 2007 Comments on Crosswalk - August 2007 Comments on evolution from backup reporting to data protection management - August 2007 Comments on 8GFC and impact of 10GbE or FCoE - August 2007 Comments on thin storage provisioning - July 2007 Comments on avoiding DR disaster by testing and DR plan maintenance - May 2007 Comments on NetApp releasing products around their acquisition of Topio - April 2007 Comments on Fibre Channel over Ethernet - April 2007 Comments on Sun storage - March 2007 Comments on data protection and replication for VMware environments - February 2007 Comments on SNIA SMIS gaining ISO approval - January 2007 Comments on HP new information and data management business unit - January 2007 Comments on data protection and availability for Windows environments - January 2007 Comments on 4Gb Fibre Channel including server and application issues - January 2007 Comments on BlueArc and HDS OEM partnership for Ultra Scalable NAS - December 2006 Comments on 3PAR and PolyServe utilities for migrating databases - December 2006 Comments on 10Gb Ethernet & InfiniBand for clustering & HPC environments - November 2006 Comments on Cisco entry level and SMB/SME Fibre Channel solutions - November 2006 Comments on VMware, Xen, server and storage I/O virtualization - November 2006 Comments on server and storage virtualization - November 2006 Comments on disk to disk data protection (3DP) and Symantec API - November 2006 Comments on data center power and cooling tied to server consolidation - November 2006 Comments on NAS and I/O performance acceleration - October 2006 Comments on McData storage virtualization appliance and blades - October 2006 Comments storage industry vendors M&A and recent IPO activity - September 2006 Comments on New landscape for disk - September 2006 Comments on Data, PC and laptop security - August 2006 Comments on RAID rocks on - August 2006 Comments on Cisco and NAS - June 2006 Press mention of the StorageIO Group - March 8, 2006 Comments on Neoscale, security and importance of encryption key management - March 2006 Comments on Pillar Data Axiom Storage System funded by Oracle Larry Ellison - March 2006 Comments on 3PAR Storage Reporter Performance & Capacity Planning - March 2006 Comments on Brocade switch and router enhancements - March 2006 Comments on SANrad and iSCSI routers, bridges and gateways - February 2006 Comments on Brocade acquisition and partnering strategies - June 2005 Comments on dynamic storage optimization - May 2005 Webcast - 4Gb Fibre Channel - Spring 2004 Webcast - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) - Fall 2004 Webcast - 4Gb Fibre Channel and Enabling Technology - Fall 2004 Webcast - Disk Based Backup Systems & Software - Spring 200 Note: On-demand webcasts may require registration and subject to change without notice.
	Comments on Google book scanning and on-line book search - December 2007
CMG MeasureIT CMG Symposiums	Article - I/O Performance Issues and Impacts on Time-Sensitive Applications - October 2006 Spring 2006 Minneapolis Regional CMG "Storage Industry Update" Spring 2006 "Server and I/O Perspectives, Issues and Industry Trends in a Virtual World" Article - Networking with your Storage - May 2003 (May require registration) CMG 1999, Reno, NV - Paper and Presentation - Storage & Storage Networking CMG 2000, Orlando, FL - Paper & Presentation - Using RAID to improve Database Performance CMG 2000, Orlando, FL - Introducing Storage Networks (SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel & Beyond) CMG 2001, Anaheim, CA - Presentation on Storage Networking Primer for OS390 and Open Systems Environment CMG 2002, Reno, NV - Paper and Presentation on Storage Networking Primer CMG 2002, Reno, NV - Update & Scaling Resilient Storage Networking CMG 2003, Dallas, TX - Paper and Presentation on Storage Networking Performance and Capacity Planning Basics CMG 2003, Dallas, TX - Securing Storage Networks & Storage Networking Primer and Update CMG 2003, Dallas, TX - Future of Storage and Storage Networking Panel - Fred Moore Moderator CMG 2004, Las Vegas, NV - Paper and Presentation on Performance and Capacity Planning For Storage Networking CMG 2004, Las Vegas, NV - Storage Technology Update Regional & international events Rocky Mountain, CMG Italia (Rome Italy), National Capital Area, Minneapolis-St. Paul.
	Comments on NetApp, NAS storage and SMB environments - June 2006
	Comments - Imation removable hard disk drive (HDD) deployments - August 2007 Comments - HP makes "Green" technology announcements - June 2007
Compaq Enterprise	Article - Getting Started With Your Own SAN - March 1999
	Comments on Brocade high-end Backbone Director Data Center Fabric Platform - January 2008 Comments on NetApp buying Infrastructure Resource Management firm Onaro - January 2008 Comments on Imation adding RFID to tape cartridge labels - March 2007 Comments on storage startup Pillar Data systems - October 2006
Computer Technology Review (CTR)	Article - New Storage Interfaces - July 1997
	Comments on back up, protecting data and performance for virtual servers - November 2007 Comments on the business case for green and power efficient storage - October 2007 Comments on application aware storage and management software - August 2007 Comments on Holographic storage - August 2007 Comments on FC-SATA (SATA over FC) technology - April 2007 Comments on NAS tackles more sophisticated roles in the enterprise - February 2007 Comments on Thin storage provisioning and avoiding over booking - December 2006 Comments on Consider compliance when choosing storage products - September 2006
	Article - "Small office home office (SOHO) backup options - February 2007 Article - "Wireless storage - unplug your backup" - November 2006 Article - "Happy 50th, hard drive. But will you make it to 60? - September 2006 Article - "Top 10 ways to secure your stored data" - August 2006 Article - "Ten tips and checklist items for deploying tape virtualization" - July 2006 Article - "Storage virtualization: How to deploy it"- June 2006 Article - "The Many faces of NAS - Which is appropriate for you?" - May 2006 Comments on Best practices for data protection, DR, backup and replication - November 2007 Comments on storage and networking companies going public - August 2007 Comments on Green IT and Storage marketing - July 2007 Comments on education and certification - January 2007 Comments on Cisco Fibre Channel SAN switch enhancements - November 2006 Comments on 4Gb Fibre Channel data and tape encryption - October 2006 Comments on leveraging smarter storage software and tools - October 2006 Comments on Windows Vista storage and I/O enhancements - October 2006 Comments on Brocade acquisition of McData - August 2006 Comments on remote offices and Wide Area File Services (WAFS) - February 2006 Comments on recent HP storage related announcements - February 2006 Comments on Brocade and the storage networking industry - January 2006 Comments on SAS disk drive technology - December 2005 Comments on storage virtualization reality - October 2005 Comments on McData new FICON capabilities - September 2005 Comments on new Hitachi (HDS, HP, Sun) disk arrays - July 2005
	Comments on RAID and relevance to data protection for most all environments - June 2006
	Comments on Imation Odyssey removable hard disk drive (RHDD) - August 2007 Comments on InfiniBand Solid State Disk (SSD) - November 2006 Comments on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) PCIe RAID adapters - November 2006 CBR: Comments on NetApp buying Infrastructure Resource Management (IRM) vendor Onaro - January 2008
	Comments on Imation Odyssey removable hard disk drive (RHDD) - August 2007 Comments on InfiniBand Solid State Disk (SSD) - November 2006 Comments on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) PCIe RAID adapters - November 2006
	Moderate "Building Better Backups" - June 2006 Moderate "Need for speed" panel discussions - June 2006
	Comments on storage virtualization and intelligent switches - September 2005
	Comments on new EMC disk based virtual tape libraries (VTLs) - November 2006
Disaster Recovery Journal	Article - Securing Storage Networks - Spring 2004 (May require Registration)
	Comments on FalconStor and Synex single instance storage (de-duplication) - November 2007 Comments on iSCSI storage vendor LeftHand and Avnet partnership - September 2007 Comments on Sun, storage and storage management - June 2007 Comments on HDS entering low-end SMB storage market - October 2007 Comments on IBM and Storage - June 2007 Comments on Bell Micro - August 2007 Comments on WysDM and data protection management - April 2007 Comments on SNIA XAM (CAS) API and Green Storage - October 2007
	Comments on CNT Matrix switch - May 2005
	Cisco's storage-networking gambit draws mixed review - August 2002 Cisco forays into storage nets - August 2002 Bandercom to face huge cuts amid slow InfiniBand market - August 2002
	Webinar - "What to look for in an SMB iSCSI solution" - July 2007 Webinar - "Storage power and cooling" - June 2007 Webinar - "Enterprise iSCSI storage options and applications" - May 2007 Webinar - "How to keep your remote data secure and available" - March 2007 Webinar - "Clearing up cluster confusion" - February 2007 Webinar - "Protecting remote office branch office (ROBO) data - March 2007 Webinar - "Decrypting encryption, a look at data security options" - October 2006 Webinar - "Building Resilient, Scalable, Flexible Data Storage Infrastructures - September 2006 Article - Not Just a Flash in the Pan - The many faces and uses of SSD storage - January 2008 Article - I/O, I/O, its off to virtual work we go - December 2007 Article - Making sense of VMware storage options - September 2007 Article - PACE yourself to power and cooling needs - July 2007 Article - Storage Power and Cooling Issues Heat up - May 2007 Article - Storage trends worth watching - January 2007 Article - Clarifying storage cluster confusion - November 2006 Article - Storage virtualization, its more common than you think - October 2006 Article - Making storage resilient - September 2006 Comments on IP iSCSI, Fibre Channel and Green Storage for 2008 - December 2007 Comments on 8Gb Fibre Channel (8GFC) and FCoE - November 2007 Comments on Sun releasing disk based archiving solution - November 2007 Comments on NetApp Storevault SMB multi-protocol, unified storage - October 2007 Comments on VMware and data storage and I/O topics - September 2007 Comments on MAID and Intelligent Power Management - September 2007 Comments on Sun, Lustre and other topics - September 2007 Comments on VMware and how storage vendors are adding support - September 2007 Comments on Sun reselling Diligent and OEM of Falconstor VTL technology - September 2007 Comments on disaster recovery and data protection - April 2007 Comments on Cisco acquisition of Neopath - April 2007 Comments on storage and IT trends - December 2006 Comments on BlueArc and Hitachi (HDS) high-end NAS partnership - December 2006 Comments on Symantec acquisition of Revivio CDP technology and backup - November 2006 Comments on disk vs. tape storage mediums - November 2006 Comments on Symantec disk based backup and VTLs - November 2006 Comments on I/O provisioning and storage I/O performance enhancement - October 2006 Comments on Sun and FalconStor virtual tape announcements - October 2006 Comments on storage industry and vendor consolidation - October 2006 Comments on storage virtualization - September 2006 Comments on EMC and data storage security - September 2006 Comments on Microsoft and iSCSI - July 2006 Comments on data and storage security - June 2006 Comments on IP storage - May 2006 Comments on Cisco and Neopath NAS file virtualization - May 2006 Comments on Backup and CDP - September 2005 Comments on RAID and storage virtualization - June 2005
eServer Magazine	Article - Seeing Storage In A New Light - May 2002
ET Magazine	Comments on fabric and switched based storage virtualization - October 2005
	Comments on Open Source and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) - December 2007 Comments on Texas Memory FLASH based solid state disk drive - September 2007 Comments on Xsigo and I/O virtualization - September 2007 Comments on LSI new SMB Fibre Channel and SAS storage system - January 2007 Comments on system and storage resource and data protection management tools - May 2006 Comments on encryption for mobile disk drives - June 2005 Comments on disk drive based encryption as part of a data protection strategy - February 2005 Comments on 4Gb Fibre Channel and other technologies - June 2005
	Comments on storage consolidation, server and storage virtualization - November 2006
	Comments on Mapping your future with automated tools - November 2006
Federal Computer Week (FCW)	Comments on safe data storage ingredients - May 2006 Comments on serial attached SCSI (SAS) disk drive technologies - August 2005 Comments on disk based data protection technologies - May 2005
Government Computing News	Backup to the future - Closing the window on potential data losses - March 2007
	Comments on how community banks can avert data-loss disasters - May 2007
HealthCare InfoMatics	Comments on storage in the health care industry - January 2005
	Decrease your data with de-duplication - August 2007
	Comments on ESCON and FICON - September 2005 Comments on Imation removable hard disk drive media - October 2006
	Comments on the value of IP storage - June 2004
	Comments on EMC and Intel partnering on SOHO and SMB NAS solutions - November 2007 Comments on EMC announcing VMware IPO - February 2007 Comments on Brocade acquiring McData - August 2006 Comments on 4Gb Fibre Channel and VMware as complementary technologies - June 2006
	Comments on I/O virtualization - October 2007 Comments on Cisco SMB/SME Fibre Channel announcements - November 2006 Comments on NetApp acquisition of Topio - November 2006 Comments on Qlogic and Fibre Channel switch and director markets - November 2006 Comments on StorVault by NetApp and SMB storage needs - July 2006 Comments on InfiniBand - January 2006 Tip - How to determine server to disk ratio - May 2005 Tip - Sorting Out Disk Drive Options - February 2005 Article - The benefits of data footprint reduction - August 2007 Analyst View - Examining I/O performance issues - August 2006 Article - Protocol options lead to 'storage-agnostic networks' - May 2002 Article - Storage virtualization: An overview - August 2000 Article - Fibre Channel SANs: An Overview - January 2000 Article - Storage Management A to Z - February 2005 Article - How to Improve SAP RAID performance - January 1999 Article - Introduction to Fibre Channel SANs - June 2001 Article - SANs enable Internet-related businesses - February 2000
	Comments on the SMB storage market - October 2004
	Comments on Dell acquiring iSCSI storage vendor EqualLogic - November 2007 Comments on VMware based data protection and backup solutions - September 2007 Comments on Crosswalk closing down - August 2007 Comments on Brocade acquisition of McData - January 2007 Comments on NetApp StorVault and SMB iSCSI and NAS storage - July 2006 Comments on NetApp disposition of NetCache to Blue Coat systems - July 2006
	Comments on self-healing storage management layers for IP networks - July 2004
	Interview - SMBs Calling the Storage Shots These Days - January 2007
Managing Automation	Comments on Email archiving and compliance - December 2005
NASPA Tech. Support Journal	Article - What's New With Storage - March 2005 Article -The Art and Science of Writing and Publishing a Book - June 2005 Book review of "Resilient Storage Networks"
	Comments about "Colorado Storage Corridor" via Denver Business Journal - June 2006
	Comments on Dell acquiring iSCSI storage vendor EqualLogic for $1.4B - November 2007 Comments on 8Gb Fibre Channel (8GFC) - August 200 7 Comments on Intelipath and matrix switch virtual patch panel - April 2007 Comments on Cisco acquisition of NeoPath file virtualization - April 2007 Comments on Fibre Channel over Ethernet - April 2007 Comments on data and storage security standards and key management - April 2007 Comments on New players entering online storage backup market - February 2007 Comments on Brocade acquiring McData - August 2006 Comments on SAS storage and SAS switches for SMB - April 2006 Comments on new EMC storage announcements - January 2006 Comments on SAN switching, scaling and Cisco - January 2006 Comments on storage virtualization technologies - May 2005 Comments on storage grid hype - September 2004
Pillar Data Systems Axiom Journal	Article - Storage interfaces in the Inaugural Issue (May require registration)
	Comments on new network storage products and technologies - August 2007 Comments on NAS and unified multi-protocol storage and data footprint reduction - July 2007 Comments on optimizing storage service delivery and management - April 2007 Comments on storage consolidation and avoiding performance issues - April 2007 Comments on 10Gb Ethernet and IP storage - March 2007 Comments on disk based backup and data protection including VTLs - January 2007 Comments on I/O performance bottlenecks and I/O virtualization - November 2006 Comments on optical based backup and virtual optical libraries (VOL) - October 2006 Comments on how to plan a storage area network - June 2006
	"Resilient Storage Networks" Elsevier/Digital Press Books) is a book written and illustrated by Greg Schulz. Resilient Storage Networks looks at storage and storage networking from a technology, and vendor neutral standpoint including coverage or performance, capacity planning, security, design, topologies and scaling, local and wide area, storage software, storage management, lifecycle management (ILM), data protection, data access among other topics. ISBN 1555583113, Paperback , 443 pages, Approximately 150 Illustrations. Click here to see where to purchase your copy of "Resilient Storage Networks" SNIA Endorsed Reading.
	Comments on perpendicular recording for disk drives - January 2006
	Comments on Virtual I/O and Xsigo - September 2007