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The Environment Still Matters

by Sunshine on February 22, 2010 in Analyst, Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

With all the talk about the data inconsistencies around climate change theory, one issue that I’d hate to see lost in the shuffle is the actual environment. That is, while I personally have been skeptical for some time about the alarmist tone many scientists took regarding global warming, it would be a shame if there [...]

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Storage News and Views – January 19

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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Shameless Plug – Vote Online Sto Op Today!

Shameless Plug – Vote Online Sto Op Today!

by Sunshine on January 14, 2010 in Blogroll, Featured

It’s that time again. Storage Monkeys is a running a contest for the Top 10 Vendor Blogs, and once again, Online Storage Optimization is a nominee! Even more exciting, this blogger is listed on there, making it the only entrant with a woman blogger. Not to play the gender card or anything, but to me [...]

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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 Year in Images

The Year in Images

by Sunshine on December 30, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This past year, we at Online Storage Op gathered all manner of images to illustrate our posts. So as a way of looking back at 2009, here are some of the ones we liked the best–and the stories that went with them: Holodeck fun: In February, Robin Harris at StorageMojo wrote about a potential breakthrough [...]

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Happy New Year

by Sunshine on December 29, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

Tis the week for the “out of office” email messages. But the storage blogo-tweet-osphere waits for no man. Here are a few posts that caught my eye this week. Bas Raayman sees CPU power hitting the wall: The RAM per CPU wall Rick Vanover says 2010 could be the year for 10GigE – Will 2010 [...]

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Drobo Mania

Drobo Mania

by Sunshine on November 23, 2009 in Blogroll

Drobo maker Data Robotics has a major announcement out today that has the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere all atwitter. It has introed two new products, Drobo S and DroboElite. These new models add new functionality to the popular desktop, SOHO and single server SMB storage, making them faster, easier and more failproof. With the new Elite, they’re [...]

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Bring Out Your Data – The Deets

by Sunshine on November 4, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Lots of speculation this past week in the storage tweet-o-blog-0sphere around our “Bring Out Your Data” Challenge for Tech Field Day. We can’t wait to see what these smart and savvy participants bring us, and we’re confident about the results. There will be prizes awarded for those who stymie us and those who get the [...]

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SNW in Full Swing

SNW in Full Swing

by Sunshine on October 13, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage

Plenty going on in Phoenix this week, as SNW is in its second day. Already, the reports are coming in, making this blogger feel sad, bereft, and out of it for not being there in person–stuck here as I am in the midst of some kind of gale on the Bay Area coast. However, I’m [...]

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What a Field Day!

What a Field Day!

by Sunshine on October 8, 2009 in Blogroll, Storage

***Update: Ocarina Networks has been chosen to be one of the presenting sponsors of this event. We look forward to meeting the attendees, and giving them a hands-on, deep dive into how our compression and dedupe solution for online storage, the Ocarina ECOsystem is light years ahead of the others. For those who are watching [...]

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