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‘Right to Erasure’ Law Proves Major European Union GDPR Hurdle – StorageSoup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Friday, August 4th 2017

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The EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 goes into effect in May of 2018 and has the potential to be very disruptive to Information Storage and Management in addition to the many other aspects of business. Much has been written...

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How to Measure Flash Storage’s True Value – StorageSoup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Evaluator Group, Wednesday, June 29th 2016

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Flash storage, or using the broader term, solid-state storage, suffers from an inadequate measure of value. Flash storage provides a step-function improvement in the ability to store and retrieve information. The value of processing with flash storage compared to access...

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Drilling Down Into Copy Data Management – StorageSoup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, September 8th 2015

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Copy data management (CDM) is a relatively new term for many in Information Technology.  At first literal consideration, its meaning seems self-evident.  However, it is really a topical area that vendors address with new products and terminology. Making copies of...

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How vendor conferences help customers, analysts and press – StorageSoup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, May 26th 2015

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How vendor conferences help customers, analysts and press I recently attended EMC World and the IBM Edge conferences in Las Vegas, and was struck by how these shows have changed the industry. Not too long ago, industry-wide shows such as Storage Networking...

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Calculating capacity utilization can be challenging, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, October 21st 2014

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The capacity utilization for storage is one area where storage vendors have made a lot of improvements. Advanced features such as storage pooling, thin provisioning, and storage virtualization have introduced greater efficiencies for using storage capacity. Still, trying to understand capacity utilization can be...

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A look at access methods for open systems and mainframes, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Monday, October 13th 2014

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The term access method is frequently used to identify types of I/O in open systems. Many who use it probably don’t understand the historical context for what has been known as an access method for over 50 years.  In open systems, the...

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All-flash storage will dominate, eventually – Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Friday, September 5th 2014

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It seems clear that all solid-state technology will become common in primary storage systems soon. In our IT client engagements, we see many companies including the transition to all solid state in their storage strategies. As with many new technologies, there are...

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Solid state requires different storage performance metrics – Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Monday, August 25th 2014

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The use of solid state technology in the form of NAND flash for storage systems changes the way we need to evaluate storage. While it brings power, space, and reliability advantages, the main reason for using solid state is performance – it...

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Private clouds signal a change in what we call IT: Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Monday, July 21st 2014

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We have been working with IT clients who deploy private clouds as part of their operations. The reasons include implementing a change in the delivery of IT services, a new infrastructure for dealing with the overwhelming influx of unstructured data, and a...

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Storage management requires continuous learning– Search Storage blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, July 15th 2014

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Despite obvious evolution of the storage industry, the problems in storing and managing information are the same ones that have been there since the days of Data Processing in the 1960s. The problems have actually grown, with nuances that make them harder...

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