Greg Schulz

Greg Schulz is founder of the Server and StorageIO, an IT industry advisory and consultancy firm. Mr Schulz has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, server/storage architect and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO. In addition to his analyst research and advisory consulting duties, Schulz has published over a thousand articles, tips, reports and white papers and is a sought after speaker at events around the world. Greg is also author of the books Resilient Storage Network (Elsevier) and The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC). His blog is at www.storageioblog.com and he can be found on twitter @storageio.

Latest from Greg Schulz

Cloud Conversations: Loss of Data Access vs. Data Loss

Have you hugged your cloud or MSP lately? Why give a cloud a hug and what does it have to do with loss of data access vs. loss of data? First there is a difference between actually losing data and losing access to it. Losing data means that you have no backup or copy of ...

Tape Talk

For being a declared dead or zombie technology (here, here or here) tape remains very much alive however its role is changing. There is no disputing that hard disk drives (HDDs) are continuing to expand their role for data protection including backup/restore, BC and DR where tape has been used for decades. What is also ...

Sarbanes-Oxley Declared Constitutional; Auditing Board, Not So Much

Today the US Supreme Court ruled on a Nevada case involving constitutionality of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox) accounting regulations pertaining to appointments to the independent public company accounting oversight board. The Supreme Court ruled that the Sarbox regulations or law remains intact, however the process or controls around the oversight board must change. My interpretation ...

EMC VPLEX: Virtual Storage Redefined or Respun?

Has EMC with their virtual storage vision redefined storage virtualizaiton, or simply respun it?

Green IT, Green Gap, Tiered Energy and Green Myths

There are many different aspects of Green IT along with several myths or misperceptions not to mention missed opportunities.

Who or what is your sphere of influence?

If you listen to vendors your perceptions will be one thing, if you listen to customers, your perceptions will be different. Or, if you simply read and obtain information and perspectives via the media and depending upon their sources or opinions, guess what!

It Is US Census time, What about IT Data Centers?

With the 2010 census underway, not to mention also time for completing and submitting your income tax returns, if you are in IT, what about measuring, assessing, taking inventory or analyzing your data and data center resources?

Seagate to say goodbye to Cayman Islands, Hello Ireland

Seagate looking to move their paper headquarters from the Cayman Islands to Ireland

March Metrics and Measuring Social Media

What metrics matter depend on your objectives or interest in using social media and networking.