Greg Schulz

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in your data center site. With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, etc) along with those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access both Rack space and Amazon S3 along with Commvault Simpana Cloud connector among others). There are also vendors that have joined cloud access gateways as part of their storage systems such as TwinStrata among others. Even EMC (and here) has gotten into the game adding qualified cloud acces... (more)

My Server and Storage IO HolidayBreak Projects

Happy new years! Following up from a flurry of posts in the closing days of 2011 including industry trends perspective predictions for 2012 and 2013, top blog posts from 2011, top all time posts, along with a couple of other items here and here, its time to get back to 2012 activity. Also if you missed it, here is the Fall (December) 2011 StorageIO news letter. Actually I have been busy working on some other projects the past several weeks most of which are NDA so not much else can be said about them, however there are some other things Im working on that will show themselves in ... (more)

Cloud and travel fun

Cloud and travel fun By Greg Schulz Warning if you are a cloud purist who does not take lightly to fun in and around all types of clouds, well, try to have some fun, otherwise enjoy this fun in and around clouds post. On a recent trip to a video recording studio in the Boston (BOS) area, I took a few photos with my iPhone of traveling above, in and around clouds. In addition, during the trip I also used cloud based services from the airplane (e.g. Gogo WiFi) for cloud backup and other functions. View of a GE CFM56 powering a Delta A320 journey to the clouds Easy to understand cl... (more)

Can I ask for your support? Please vote for my blog

Can I ask for your support? Please vote for my blog By Greg Schulz No Im not running for any elected office in a political or other organizational capacity, more on the voting stuff in a moment. Let me start out by saying thank you to all of you who have and continue to read theses posts from where ever that happens to be from. I also want to thank all of the sites and venues that pickup my blog feeds to make it easier for readers to view the content as well as thanks for all of the great comments and discussions. Doing some recent end of year clean up and preparation for 2012, I ... (more)

Cloud, Virtualization and Storage Networking Conversations

Here is a link to a series cloud, virtualization and storage networking conversations posts that Im doing over at IT-Toolbox. Each post in the series covers various topics along with a frequently asked question that I encounter pertaining to clouds, virtualization and storage networking. Here is some related material: The blame game: Does cloud storage result in data loss? What do VARs and Clouds as well as MSPs have in common? Convergence: People, Processes, Policies and Products Clouds and Data Loss: Time for CDP (Commonsense Data Protection)? Poll: What Do You Think of IT Clouds? Clo... (more)