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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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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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Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

by Sunshine on December 7, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization, cloud

It’s been a tough year — a worldwide recession, a sluggish housing market, rising unemployment … and on top of all that, the tarnished image of one of sports’ most squeaky clean players. Well, actually, there have been some bright spots. As DCIG blogger and storage analyst Jerome Wendt notes while looking back at the [...]

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Techasaurus Rex

by Sunshine on December 2, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Two items jumped out at me this week. First, Francine Hardaway’s post on being an early adopter, “Do You Write in the Cloud?” and second, this New York Times story about Cormac McCarthy’s typewriter. Hardaway, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Stealthmode Partners talks about how she and other bloggers compose their text. Mashable‘s Pete [...]

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Tech Field Day Cometh

Tech Field Day Cometh

by Sunshine on November 11, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, cloud

Excitement is building here at Ocarina as tomorrow is the big kickoff for Tech Field Day, and we’re a presenting sponsor of the event. As we speak, cables are being laid, demos are being run through, and a certain amount of nervous excitement is in the air. In just two short days, a horde of [...]

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Storage News and Views, October 23

Storage News and Views, October 23

by Sunshine on October 23, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, cloud

What a long, strange trip it’s been for storage recently. First, there was the disaster that turned out to be less of a disaster than we thought. All those Paris Hilton phone numbers and Perez Hilton black book emails lost to a Sidekick in the ribs … But then it turned out all was not [...]

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Where’s The Growth? Storage!

Where’s The Growth? Storage!

by Sunshine on September 27, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Friday’s CNBC segment is worth a watch if you’re wondering where the greatest growth will be over the next decade in the technology sector. “Everything that we are using now–videos on YouTube. Everything we’re doing on our phone. On and on. It’s all about storage and putting stuff on the net,” opines Roger Nusbaum of [...]

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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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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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Chase Tape Fail

by Sunshine on August 7, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Not so funny story. My dad called me up today and told me that he received a letter from his credit card company, Chase. The letter stated that one of their tape backups had been lost. That tape contained information including his name, address, and social security number. The tape was held in a vendor’s [...]

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