Last week’s BD Event was more than just a deal making event. It was a chance to learn about new product releases and trend in the storage industry. The big picture: gone are the days when end users had to accept whatever the storage industry handed down to them. Today’s small-to-medium-sized storage operations are all [...]
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The BD Event Video
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 [...]
Tagged Gets Shrunk
Interesting story from the vault of the Ocarina case study library. Social network Tagged is the third largest social network in the U.S. It has seen traffic increase 10x over the past two years. With its focus on making new friends rather than simply getting to know existing ones, it has carved out a successful [...]
Databases – Compression Targets?
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 [...]
Storage Industry Lags Behind Advances in Compression
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 [...]
The BD Event – Are you going?
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 [...]
The Year in Images
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 [...]
Happy New Year
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 [...]
Last-minute online shopping spikes – boon or threat?
Tis the week of Christmas and all through the house, not a creature is stirring except to click their mouse. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are far behind us, but there are still a few doing their last-last-minute online shopping. This entire week, the tubes were getting clogged due to this. Akamai’s Retail Index shows [...]
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