In this podcast, Mike Karp, VP and Principal Analyst at Ptak-Noel Associates and founder of Infrastructure Analytics, talks about how technology trends, such as cloud computing and virtualization, will continue to reshape enterprise storage, and what CIOs must know to take advantage of these trends.

How does both cloud computing computer and virtualization change enterprise storage? According to Mike Karp, a former storage analyst for Enterprise Management Associates and the Hurwitz Group, says that these technologies will profoundly change storage at all levels – from the enterprise of global companies to small businesses. He says that it is important to keep in mind that there is a continuum here. “Virtualization differs from cloud computing.  In fact, virtualization provides a path to cloud computing. You can go from virtualization to private clouds to public clouds, or you can do just one of them or a mix of them. You typically see hybridization or hybrid architectures. Virtualization enables a great deal of mobility for where you store your data, applications or where your processing resides. You are not restricted to a particular type of hardware. The mobility of the application and the processing enables you to move from one virtual environment to another one instanteously.”

In this podcast, Karp, the founder of Infrastructure analytics, a research firm that focuses on how storage networking fits into the organization’s overall infrastructure, talks about the following:

• how have both cloud computing and virtualization changed enterprise storage,
• what pros and cons emerge in the move to each one of these technologies,
• what type of impact these technologies will have on disaster recovery, and
• what changes CIOs must prepare for when they move to these technologies.

Bio

Michael Karp is the founder of Infrastructure Analytics. He spent nine years as the senior analyst for the storage networking practice at Enterprise Management Associates. Here he consulted with vendors on technologies ranging from data reduction to cloud computing. For about six years, he wrote the twice weekly Storage in the Enterprise newsletter for NetworkWorld. Before EMA he was director of storage technologies for Hurwitz Group.

He also has held senior technology leadership positions at Bellcore/Telcordia Technologies and Microelectronics/Symbios Logic/LSI. He was a doctoral candidate in systems management at Colorado Technical University. He also has written about storage networking for a number of computer trade publications, including CIO Update, Computerworld, Enterprise Storage Forum, and TechRepublic.

Resources

Mike Karp's Website

http://www.storagekilter.com

IT, Get Smart About Smart Device Disposal, Internet Evolution

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=630&doc_id=169627

EMC Looks at Clouds From Both Sides Now, Internet Evolution

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=630&doc_id=154548

Computerworld Articles by Mike Karp

http://www.computerworld.com.au/author/678536099/mike_karp/articles

Production Credits

Elizabeth Ferrarini, Executive Producer

Tom Parish, Host and Audio Producer