Archive | February, 2009

Cheap Disk Gets Pile of Cash

by Sunshine on February 18, 2009 in Storage

Big storage headline this week is Copan Systems. The company known for its cheap storage disk systems just uploaded $18.5 million in new venture capital financing. This is the company’s fifth round since its founding in 2002. Copan Systems, as most of you know, sells inexpensive MAID storage storage systems. Chris Preimesberger has a short [...]

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Obama’s Stimulus Plan – Who Will Benefit?

by Sunshine on February 17, 2009 in Storage

President Obama will sign the historic and sweeping stimulus bill today and over the past week, several articles and blogs took a look at how this package could benefit the storage and IT industries. Most notable for the industry is the $20 billion being put towards the goal of digitizing all medical records by 2014. [...]

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Looking to Slash Primary Storage Costs?

by Sunshine on February 16, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

For those who seek to reduce their primary storage costs, may we suggest a webcast featuring Marc Staimer of Dragonslayer Consulting, entitled “How to cut your primary storage costs in half”? In this video, veteran storage consultant Staimer lays out the case for what makes content aware storage optimization so compelling for companies that are [...]

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Looking for Crocuses

Looking for Crocuses

by Sunshine on February 16, 2009 in Storage, capacity optimization

David Carr’s column in today’s New York Times comments on the difficulty that even the normally upbeat cable news world is having in finding a bright side to the unfolding financial story: “‘We are looking for the crocuses and daffodils,’ said Tyler Mathisen, managing editor of CNBC, which is owned by NBC Universal. ‘They may [...]

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Cloud Storage Revisited

by Sunshine on February 13, 2009 in Storage

If Tom Lehrer could have an album called “Revisited” then there’s no reason why this blog can’t do the same thing with a piece by Carter George on cloud storage. When we ran this post last May, cloud storage was an important topic of discussion. Since then, the blogo-tweet-o-sphere has exploded, with numerous posts per [...]

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Chuck’s Heart-Shaped Post a Winner

Chuck’s Heart-Shaped Post a Winner

by Sunshine on February 12, 2009 in Storage

Chuck Hollis at EMC’s post today is an early Valentine’s Day card to the small but growing storage blogger community. Listing some of the most active and well-respected bloggers, he gives props to all of them, underlining their unique qualities. This post couldn’t have come at a better time, as there has been a small [...]

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Green Design for Data Centers

by Sunshine on February 11, 2009 in Storage, green IT

Some news in the world of Green IT today. First, TechWorld UK reports that a new start-up, Viridity, has software it claims can “assess the impact of technologies such as virtualisation and de-duplication, allow chargeback based on power usage, identify equipment that can be turned off or moved, and rebalancing the IT load to reduce [...]

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TechTarget Rolls with the Changes

TechTarget Rolls with the Changes

by Sunshine on February 11, 2009 in Storage

Lots happening over at TechTarget–all of which is a sign that the company is embracing and moving with the times. Yesterday we learned through his blog that W. Curtis Preston is now an executive editor there. This was confirmed in an email sent around to subscribers that read, in part: “We’re pleased to announce that [...]

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What We’re Reading

by Sunshine on February 11, 2009 in Storage

InformationWeek had some smart pieces this week that are worth checking out. In both of these articles, there is food for thought for the storage industry. First, this piece by Charles Babcock on Russ Daniels, CTO of HP and his view of the future of cloud computing: HP On the Cloud: “The World is Cleaving [...]

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VCs Back Cost Savings

VCs Back Cost Savings

by Sunshine on February 10, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization

In the new economic climate a mantra is going around venture capital circles–”save customers money.” Most of us in the valley are already aware of this trend and have been for some time. It certainly sums up Ocarina’s mission in a neat little nutshell. Today, the New York Times Bits blog reported on a talk [...]

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