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UBM Tech Introduces Storage Acceleration [Professional Services Close - Up](Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) UBM Tech has launched Storage Acceleration, an online community for chief information officers, other senior IT executives, and the business unit leaders who are involved in enterprise initiatives that employ evolving data storage technologies to improve application performance and achieve corporate goals. According to a release, the Storage Acceleration community, comprising bloggers, UBM Tech editors, IT and business executives, and site sponsor SanDisk, presents an opportunity for community members to share their experiences, advice, and opinions with their peers. The community will address strategies for the successful use of technologies and concepts that are positioned to revolutionize the enterprise data storage environment. At the heart of the Storage Acceleration community is the ability for IT decision makers to seek out the advice and opinions of their peers. Storage Acceleration will feature daily blogs and active message boards where community members can seek information from bloggers and their peers in the IT profession. Other information features will include live chats and webcasts about technical, managerial, and organizational issues that engage enterprise datacenter professionals implementing big-data initiatives, high- performance transactional applications, and customer-facing web and e-commerce applications. Experienced technology journalist James Connolly has been named editor in chief. In a 30-year career as a technology editor and writer, he has chronicled the use of technology at the enterprise level, IT management, and emerging technologies. His experience includes work with UBM Tech's Marketing Services unit, TechTarget, Mass High Tech, and Computerworld. "This is an exciting time to be working in the storage sector," said Connolly. "There probably has been no other era in the history of computing where so many tech developments and management concepts have come together to create tectonic shifts in the storage business and enterprise storage strategies. Consider just the rapid growth of enterprise interest in SSD for the datacenter over the past few months, and then add in all of the other tech trends, and you can see how IT decision makers see both opportunities and challenges in the storage revolution. Our job is to provide a forum where we can track the multiple developments in the storage market, learn from peers who have shared their experiences in implementing some of the new concepts, and seek out advice from hands-on consultants, technology providers, and their peers in the IT community." The site is published by UBM Tech and sponsored by SanDisk. More information: www.storageacceleration.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |