The term “deduplication for primary storage” has become the latest industry buzz phrase. Yet, how much do any of us know about it? This week, I sat down with Shmuel Shottan, CTO of BlueArc, and learned a great deal about what makes this emerging technology such a crucial one at this time. I was impressed [...]
A Q&A With Shmuel Shottan, CTO, BlueArc
by Sunshine on February 27, 2009 in Featured, Storage, Storage optimization
Obama’s Healthcare Imaging Plan – More Implications
by Sunshine on February 26, 2009 in Storage
More news and commentary on the Electronic Healthcare Records part of Obama’s stimulus plan of interest to the storage industry. As you may or may not know, $20 billion has been set aside in an effort to fully digitize healthcare records. As HealthImaging & IT Reports, the plan could result in something of a limbo [...]
Storage News and Notes 2/25/09
by Sunshine on February 25, 2009 in Storage
Big day today for the storage industry. Top story for us, Ocarina announced $20 million in Series B financing, led by Palo Alto-based Jafco Ventures, with participation from existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners. Here the latest round up of news articles: San Jose Mercury News (print and online eds) [...]
Ocarina Raises $20 Million
by Sunshine on February 25, 2009 in Featured, File Systems, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization
Today, Ocarina Networks announced that it closed a $20 million Series B funding round. This is obviously great news for the company, as well as a strong validation of what the Ocarina set out to accomplish. The funding round was led by Jafco Ventures, with significant participation from Series A investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & [...]
Beauty Really in Eye of Beholder
by Sunshine on February 24, 2009 in Uncategorized
Here’s a completely non-storage related topic that I found fascinating. Science writer Brandon Keim’s story in Wired today reports that beauty is experienced differently by men and women. Summarizing findings from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the article states: “In men, images they consider to be beautiful appear to activate brain regions [...]
The Storage Oscars and Other News of the Week
by Sunshine on February 24, 2009 in Storage
There is a definite feeling out there that storage blogging is growing. It’s a more connected, social world than ever before in the past, the result being higher quality content. Here are some of the tidbits that jumped out at me this week: Storage Monkeys, relaunched last month (just like this blog!) announced today that [...]
Like Stars in the Digital Sky
by Sunshine on February 20, 2009 in Featured, Storage optimization
It has been nearly two years since the now semi-famous IDC report, sponsored by EMC on “The Expanding Digital Universe” was issued, stating that digital growth would soon surpass capacity. Last year, the report was updated, showing that the earlier estimates were about 10 percent too low, and that the total amount of data would [...]
Cloud Humor Hits Blogosphere
by Sunshine on February 20, 2009 in Storage
With so much talk about the cloud on blogs far and wide, it was inevitable, I suppose. Blogger Dave Graham has penned a piece, with tongue firmly in cheek, about the various “cloud personality types” that are out there, based on the DSM. He is still updating the post. So far, my personal favorites are: [...]
Ocarina Goes To Hollywood
by Sunshine on February 19, 2009 in Storage, Uncategorized
Here’s something that might surprise you–one of the sectors that has been hit hard by an upsurge in storage demands is movie studios. And while you’re probably imagining that video is the source of their storage woes, in fact this is not the case. As it turns out, video is a relatively small part of [...]
The New Yorker 2.0?
by Sunshine on February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized
I have to admit that it’s been over a year since I stopped renewing my sub to the venerable New Yorker magazine. I hung in there through the Tina Brown years, and after that it seemed to revert to the Ivy League tone I found so hard to take in the past, and the magazines [...]
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