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Storage Blogging–The Good, The Bad and the Goofy

Storage Blogging–The Good, The Bad and the Goofy

by Sunshine on August 24, 2009 in Blogroll

We’re just one week away from VMWorld, to be held here in San Francisco Aug. 31-Sept. 3 and the storage blogo-tweet-osphere is lighting up like a Christmas tree. This blogger will be there with her trusty iPhone, ready to send out tweets on every imaginable topic, rumor, random thought, and food item she encounters. We’re [...]

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Tiered Storage – A Virtual Future

by Carter George on August 20, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

There’s been a lot of discussion about tiered storage lately. Most notably, Stephen Foskett has written a series of posts on the topic on his Nirvanix blog, Enterprise Storage Strategies. In his latest post, he essentially argues that tiered storage hasn’t turned out to be cost effective and that cloud storage could be the best [...]

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SNW Revisited

by Sunshine on August 17, 2009 in Blogroll, Storage

InfoStor editor Dave Simpson has a post on his storage blog about how Storage Networking World (SNW) can get back some of its lost luster. As he notes, trade shows in general are feeling the pinch in the current recession and SNW-which just posted the agenda for its upcoming fall conference–is no exception. For the [...]

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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad, Dedupe?

by Carter George on July 28, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Martin Glassborow on his Storagebod Blog has written a controversial piece raises questions about the two hottest technologies in storage at the moment, dedupe and thin provisioning. In his post, entitled “Living on a Prayer,” he suggests that both of these technologies could be the road to a storage nightmare, in which, “you could be [...]

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Doing More With Less

by Sunshine on July 23, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, capacity optimization

If you’re trying to figure out how to do more with less when it comes to your storage, I’d strongly suggest you participate in an upcoming Webinar, “How to Use Storage Tiering to Create Cost Efficient Storage of your Online Data.” It will take place on August 5 at 9 a.m. PDT and 12 p.m. [...]

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Thanks to our Readers

by Sunshine on July 22, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, green IT

As the new vendor storage blog on the block, Online Storage Optimization has a lot to be grateful for. Since our relaunch in February, we have become a known source of opinion and information on the very hot topic of data deduplication. You, our readers, are the reason we exist. Your comments and thoughts are [...]

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Network Storage is Back

by Sunshine on July 20, 2009 in Blogroll

One of our favorite blogs, Network Storage by Anil Gupta, has been something of an on again off again project. It is written by Anil Gupta, a Quantum systems engineer–though the ideas are his own. Yesterday, he posted on an observation he had made. Namely, that several different spreadsheet programs had miscalculated the answer to [...]

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We’ve Been Nominated!

We’ve Been Nominated!

by Sunshine on July 13, 2009 in Blogroll

In case you’re not aware, the storage blogosphere is all a-Twitter about the Storage Monkeys Top Storage Vendor Blog award, and this blog, Online Storage Optimization is one of the nominees. The finalists were chosen by members of the Storage Monkeys community. It’s an honor to be included among bloggers such as Storagezilla (currently in [...]

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The Future of NAS — Hint: Data Reduction is a Big Part of It

by Sunshine on July 1, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, capacity optimization

If it isn’t already, then Stephen Foskett’s Enterprise Storage Strategies blog for Nirvanix should be on your reading list. Today he has an interesting take on some statistics that have emerged on the future of NAS, as collected by analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. Analyst Terri McClure has an excellent post on the results. Here [...]

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Blog Review – Storagebod

by Sunshine on June 16, 2009 in Blogroll

Note: this is the first in a series of posts on the blogs that make up the Online Storage Optimization blogroll. Please look out for future reviews of other storage bloggers. Every once in awhile I find myself enjoying a blog so much that I end up reading several posts in one sitting. Such was [...]

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