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Archive | March, 2009

Join the Conversation!

by Sunshine on March 27, 2009 in Storage

There’s a lot of chit chat going on about storage these days – some on the mud-slinging level, some civilized, most somewhere in between. One positive trend is that the blogosphere is becoming less about personalities and more about collaboration and discussion — thanks to Twitter and other networking tools. Storage bloggers, being the smart [...]

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Remembrance of Data Past

by Sunshine on March 26, 2009 in Storage

Interesting story in today’s San Jose Merc about the new home for the “wayback machine” run by the nonprofit Internet Archive. For those who haven’t explored it, this site is a great way to take a trip down memory lane, a la Proust‘s madeleine, at Web pages gone by. For example, I was able to [...]

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Why Not Subscribe?

by Sunshine on March 25, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

You may have noticed some changes to our blog over the last few months. We’ve changed the name and URL to onlinestorageoptimization.com. We are posting far more frequently. Content is getting more diverse, and contributors are increasing. Here are some of the posts that you guys are saying are really knocking your socks off: Where [...]

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What Recession? Part II – Storage Going Strong

by Sunshine on March 25, 2009 in Storage

The recession is and the recession isn’t. It’s an odd beast that way. As I noted in an earlier post, the recessionary economy hasn’t yet translated to massive IT job losses — at least not yet. There are winners and losers, something that’s true in just about any economic climate. And right now, technologies that [...]

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Entrepreneurship Meets American Idol

by Murli Thirumale on March 24, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina

This past weekend, I had the privilege of being a speaker at Entrepreneur Trek ’09, a conference held at Stanford Graduate School of Business featuring many of the leading lights in Silicon Valley. Participants were a diverse group of mainly MBA students and recent graduates from around the country. I met folks from Stanford, Duke, [...]

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Believe it Or Not!

by Sunshine on March 23, 2009 in Uncategorized

Today, Online Storage Optimization is taking a break from storage related topics and instead brings you some of the strangest, most amusing, and generally oddball stories we’ve seen of late. Here they are for your enjoyment. Fact, not fiction, rules the brain (except for gamers). A new study shows that in general, the human brain [...]

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IBM Ink Drying in the Sun?

by Sunshine on March 20, 2009 in Storage

Chris Preimesberger over at eWeek is reporting that the IBM acquisition of Sun for the bargain basement price of $6.5 billion is almost definitely a go and could be announced today or Monday. Writes Chris: “All the indicators point one way: The acquisition of one of the most innovative, risk-taking and open-source-minded IT companies in [...]

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The Name Game

by Sunshine on March 20, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

Questions about names have pursued me throughout my life. As someone with the first name Sunshine, I am constantly asked about it. As if defying the laws of probability, they are always same two or three questions: 1. Is that your real name? 2. Were your parents hippies? 3. That must be a lot of [...]

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Getting More Bang for Your Storage Buck

by Sunshine on March 19, 2009 in Storage

George Crump over at Storage Switzerland has been writing some very interesting pieces on data migration lately. Today, he posted an extensive article on Optimized Migrations that is definitely worth a read for anyone trying cut primary storage costs. Among other issues, he discusses how Ocarina and content aware optimization aid in the process, further [...]

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