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tekinerd

About tekinerd

Andy, chief tekinerd, is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur who has worked for more than 24 years in the high tech local area networking, storage area networking, enterprise computing systems and semiconductor industries. Specializing in whole product cycle strategy formulation, new product development and marketing launch into both OEM and system builder channels, he has worked in several progressive positions in product development, field and product marketing, general management and CEO levels in both the US and Europe.

SSDs and World of Warcraft

Posted on May 17, 2012 by tekinerd

For enthusiasts and gamers, over the past several years, combining several hard drives in a striped RAID configuration has provided reasonable benefits over and above a single hard drive. With my new SSD insight however, it’s now apparent that RAID … Continue reading →

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SSD Tiering versus Caching: Part 2

Posted on August 14, 2011 by tekinerd

A while back I wrote about some of the differences between caching and tiering when using solid state disk (SSD) drives in a PC or server. Having just returned from the 2011 Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, I feel … Continue reading →

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Snapshot and Full Image Backup for Windows Home Server

Posted on June 5, 2011 by tekinerd

One of the short comings of the original 32 bit Windows Home Server (WHS) for me was the lack of any built in tools to backup the primary WHS boot drive. While using a RAID 1 boot drive would protect … Continue reading →

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Loving Personal Cloud Storage with SugarSync

Posted on January 26, 2011 by tekinerd

I love simple-to-use technology, being a great advocate of the KISS principle. I could write a thesis on how many times I’ve seen engineers and marketers create funky steps in products to do the most basic things, usually because not … Continue reading →

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Will Traditional Disk Array Vendors Survive?

Posted on December 10, 2010 by tekinerd

The more you look at how SAN disk array systems are evolving, the more you start to wonder how traditional disk array systems vendors can survive long term without a significant change in their business model. What’s been a business … Continue reading →

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SSD Caching versus Tiering

Posted on November 8, 2010 by tekinerd

In some recent discussions, I sensed there is some confusion around solid state device (SSD) storage used as a storage tier vs, a cache. While there are some similarities and both are intended to achieve the same end result i.e. … Continue reading →

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Cloudy Server Growth

Posted on October 6, 2010 by tekinerd

Infoworld recently posted an interesting article (The numbers don’t lie — cloud computing boosts server sales) about how server market revenues have increased by around 11 percent in the second quarter of 2010, with quarterly revenues coming in around $10.9 … Continue reading →

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Windows Home Server to the Rescue

Posted on October 6, 2010 by tekinerd

I have now been running WHS since Dec 2007 on a small self-built VIA based ITX system, chosen because it was small and ran on much lower power and generated less heat and noise than a conventional PC or low … Continue reading →

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