Archive | April, 2009
A Q&A With Brad Winett of Isilon Systems

A Q&A With Brad Winett of Isilon Systems

by Sunshine on April 15, 2009 in Featured, Storage

Ask any system administrator what he or she really wants, and the answer will most likely come down to two things: simplicity and efficiency. The irony, however, is that just about every advance in one of these areas leads to problems in the other. For example, server virtualization has led to inefficiencies on the storage [...]

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News Wrap-up: V-Max Rules the Day

by Sunshine on April 15, 2009 in Storage

For those of you who have been living in a cave, some big news came out from EMC yesterday that has the whole storage blog-o-tweet-o-news-osphere talking. In a splashy virtual news conference, the storage giant introduced its new Symmetrix V-Max storage virtualization system, garnering the same level of media attention as Cisco’s UCS did a [...]

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Solar Power … In Space?

Solar Power … In Space?

by Sunshine on April 14, 2009 in green IT

Plenty of commentary on one particular storage story filling up the blogosphere today, and so we felt no need to stick our oar in–at least not yet. Instead, here’s a news story that made me sit up and take notice. According to GigaOm greentech blog Earth2Tech, California’s megautility PG&E is in the midst of a [...]

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Storage News and Views – EMC, Dedupe & More

by Sunshine on April 13, 2009 in Storage

The storage blog-o-tweet-o-sphere has been pretty quiet so far this week. Perhaps everyone is nursing jet lag and hangovers following their week at SNW. Though there was a minor dust-up or two between our favorite pair of battling giants last week to keep us all entertained. So far, a few pieces of news that we’re [...]

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Where Were the Start-Ups at SNW?

by Carter George on April 10, 2009 in Featured, Storage

Now that SNW is over, there has been a lot of talk about how shockingly underattended it was–even by those of us who expected it to be smaller than usual. Clearly the recession took its toll, with tradeshows being treated as discretionary spend that can be cut by both end-users and vendors. As Beth Pariseau [...]

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Storing the Moon

Storing the Moon

by Sunshine on April 9, 2009 in Storage

Thanks to Twitter, I was alerted this week to a recent LA Times profile of a woman who restored old NASA files detailing its 1966 scientific missions to the moon using the Lunar Orbiter. The story of what happened to that data is a truly epic tale and one that might interest many in the [...]

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InfoStor Revs up Blogs

by Sunshine on April 8, 2009 in Storage

As everyone in the industry knows, storage publication InfoStor is a great resource for news and views on storage. One area where it hasn’t been all that active was in the blogging arena. Well, all that is changing. Dave Simpson, Editor-in-Chief and Kevin Komiega senior editor, are both blogging as we speak, on site from [...]

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Out of the Sun

by Sunshine on April 7, 2009 in Storage

What’s going on with Sun and IBM? Why would either party walk away from the table on what seemed such a compelling potential merger? But apparently they have–at least for now. Forbes reporters Andy Greenberg and Brian Caulfield are commenting today is that Sun has been stumbling from one mistake to another, culminating in the [...]

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Dedupe for Primary Hot Topic at SNW

by Sunshine on April 6, 2009 in File Systems

SNW is kicking off with a bang today, and primary storage optimization is the topic du jour. Ocarina Networks, the leader in content aware compression and dedupe for online storage is partnering with cloud storage provider Nirvanix. The combination means cost savings and improved throughput to customers looking to leverage content-aware compression and object deduplication [...]

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A Breakthrough for the Petabyte Age

A Breakthrough for the Petabyte Age

by Sunshine on April 3, 2009 in Storage

A story in Wired caught my eye today–at Cornell University, a computer has discovered a law of physics on its own. Without any prior knowledge of physics or geometry, the machine was able to extrapolate the laws of motion by analyzing a pendulum’s swings. Contributor Brandon Keim writes: “The research is being heralded as a [...]

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