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Archive | January, 2010

The BD Event Video

by Sunshine on January 31, 2010 in Ocarina, Storage, cloud

Last week, a group of us participated in a groundbreaking new anti-trade show, The Business Development Event. Organized by industry veterans Greg and VaNessa Duplessie, the event was the second of its kind and the first in the Silicon Valley area. Held in Palo Alto, California, it drew dozens of storage industry members who spent [...]

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One small bit for mankind…

by Sunshine on January 22, 2010 in Uncategorized

Thanks to Data Center Knowledge for picking up this science geeky piece of news–turns out that the SNAFU-prone CERN Large Hadron Collider is quite the data beast. The detectors built into the giant science experiment are coughing out gigabytes of data every second. One detector has 100 million readout channels. The below video is a [...]

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Storage News and Views – January 19

by Sunshine on January 19, 2010 in Blogroll, Storage

Bleary-eyed, the storage industry has begun to wake up from its holiday stupor. VMware has decided to go into the email business. EMC continues to vacuum up talent like a Roomba on a tear through the world’s biggest living room. Meanwhile, the jokers over at Gestalt IT are picking up the “Fake Steve Jobs” meme [...]

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Databases – Compression Targets?

by Carter George on January 16, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina

The headline of this post poses a question that was raised in a recent comments discussion between Dave Vellante of Wikibon and myself on this blog. Dave wanted to know if there are use cases in which generic compression might still be useful. As I wrote in my post, most of the storage industry still [...]

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Storage Industry Lags Behind Advances in Compression

by Carter George on January 13, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

There’s a lot of talk about compression these days, but how much do we know about it? Well, for one thing, compression as a research area for mathematics has evolved much faster than most people realize. The thing is, most compressors used in computer products, including dedupe appliances, use generic algorithms rather than making use [...]

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Going Social – EMC stands tall

by Sunshine on January 11, 2010 in Blogroll, Featured, Storage

If you haven’t yet tuned into the weekly podcast known as Infosmack on community site Storage Monkeys, you’re missing out. Every Monday, hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley bring on guests to dish about the latest storage industry news–and they do so in a very entertaining and informative way. This week’s show was particularly enjoyable, [...]

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The BD Event – Are you going?

by Sunshine on January 8, 2010 in Ocarina, Uncategorized

Once in a great while someone comes up with an idea that makes you slap your palm to your forehead and ask, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Such is the case with The Business Development Networking Event, or “BD Event.” Organized by storage industry veterans Greg and VaNessa Duplessie, this conference fills a clear [...]

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Storage News and Views, January 7

by Sunshine on January 7, 2010 in Storage, cloud

An earthquake shook up San Jose (not mention Twitter) today. But that didn’t stop the storage industry’s movers and shakers from making all kinds of interesting news. Here’s a quick roundup from where we sit. A game of musical chairs… EMC lost storage tech consultant and blogger Steve Kenniston to inline dedupe player Storwize, where [...]

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