Archive | September, 2009

The Ikea Effect

by Sunshine on September 8, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization

There’s a piece in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine that’s all about storage. It echoes many of the predicaments enterprises face when dealing with their data. The planning–or lack thereof–that goes into dealing with an upsurge of items to be stored. The building of storage to accommodate that demand. The unpredictable ebbing and flowing [...]

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Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day

by Sunshine on September 7, 2009 in Uncategorized

Online Storage Optimization is taking a much needed rest today. Hope you’re all enjoying your labor day holiday–and that you are able to shut down your laptop, switch off your Blackberry/iPhone/Android/fill-in-the-blank-device-here and relax. See you tomorrow!

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VMWorld Wraps Up – EMC, Stealth Storage, and More

by Sunshine on September 3, 2009 in Storage, cloud

This year’s VMWorld ended with a bang–as rock legend Foreigner played for a crowd of 10,000 virtualization fanatics at the Yerba Buena Center in S.F. This really was one heck of a jampacked and exciting event. It is clear that this is becoming one of the key shows for the virtualization and storage markets. There [...]

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VMWorld Turnout – A Sign of Recovery?

by Sunshine on September 2, 2009 in Uncategorized

VMWorld is in full swing in San Francisco this week, and attendance has gone far beyond all predictions. I’ve heard a number of estimates, ranging from 12,000-15,000. In any case, the attendance has blown away their original prediction of 8,000-10,000. Seems there were a lot of last-minute registrees. The downside of this is that the [...]

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