Archive | March, 2009

What We’re Reading – Week of March 16

by Sunshine on March 18, 2009 in Storage, capacity optimization

With all the talk about Cisco, the possible IBM-Sun merger, and other hot news of the day, this has also been a remarkable week for posts on other topics of interest to the storage community. Here are a few that caught my attention: HDS – Hu’s Blog – Your Assets, Sweat it or Enhance It [...]

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Here Comes the Sun

Here Comes the Sun

by Sunshine on March 18, 2009 in Storage

It’s been an exciting week. Monday, all the talk was on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), which the Ruptured Monkey blog went so far as to compare to the borg. Still reeling from this major piece of news, today we learned that IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems. The great thing about acquisitions–especially [...]

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Four Key Trends To Cut Storage Costs

Four Key Trends To Cut Storage Costs

by Sunshine on March 17, 2009 in Featured, Storage, capacity optimization

The economy may be tanking, but that hasn’t translated to companies generating less data. On the contrary, data growth continues apace. And while some say this shouldn’t be shocking news, we at least believe that it doesn’t have to be all bad news. In a Webcast with SearchStorage, Carter George, VP products at Ocarina and [...]

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Game Break

Game Break

by Sunshine on March 17, 2009 in Uncategorized

Life in tech can be tough, and for the bright minds within it, a mini-vacation from reality can be good therapy. Today’s post will take a look at some of the more intriguing and futuristic distractions available right now. That way, you can at least read about the idea of having fun, even if you [...]

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Cisco’s Big Announcement

by Sunshine on March 16, 2009 in Storage

Cisco launched its Unified Computing System today, and the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere is abuzz with frenzied speculation as to what exactly this will mean. In addition to making the announcement via the traditional press release channels, the CEOs of NetApp and EMC released videos this morning on YouTube. Clearly, they were prerecordered videos–not made at the [...]

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Where is Atlas?

Where is Atlas?

by Carter George on March 13, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

For those who follow the storage news, Riverbed, known mainly for its Steelhead WAN appliance, is getting into the dedupe for primary game with its upcoming Atlas product, which has been delayed for release until 2010. I’m disappointed to see this delayed, because this market is going crazy in 2009, and the more credible entrants [...]

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A Twitter Toolbox

A Twitter Toolbox

by Sunshine on March 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

Twitter is a powerful tool, not to mention a great distraction … er, method of connecting with others. If a show biz personality who is just learning email can get 70K followers in 24 hours, then clearly anyone can dive in and have fun. Yet, Twitter can also be a headache-inducing, information-spewing overload machine, especially [...]

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Storage Rap Wars and Other News of the Day

by Sunshine on March 12, 2009 in Storage, Uncategorized

This week has been a bonanza in the storage and tech blog world. A number of interesting stories, plus … the smackdowns continue. I never thought I’d see myself writing this, but the dueling rap videos among storage players has once again began to heat up. Marc Farley over at 3Par has posted a video [...]

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The Ultimate Backup

by Sunshine on March 11, 2009 in Storage, capacity optimization, green IT

Watching the movie version of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” last night, I was amazed at how much of the humor had something to do with computers. For something originally written in the late 1970s, it’s ahead of its time. As Stephen Fry has pointed out, the idea of the Hitchhiker’s Guide–a voice-activated book [...]

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Storage News & Views – Week of March 9

by Sunshine on March 10, 2009 in Storage, capacity optimization

It’s only Tuesday, and already it’s been a jam packed week. Ocarina’s partnership with Isilon Systems was a big news item for this blog. For those who don’t follow the blow by blows, Isilon announced a new integrated nearline archive solution combining Isilon’s new 36NL and Ocarina’s ECOsystem storage optimization software. Chris Mellor’s piece in [...]

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