While it’s true that Spring has officially been underway for a month, only now do we start to embrace the change in seasons. The smell of burgers wafts across backyards, birds warble away in the trees, and baseball players start rubbing Bengay into their sore muscles.
In the storage industry, there are also some changes afoot. Here are a few we’ve noted this week:
Stephen Foskett has a new blog, Enterprise Storage Strategies. The blog resides on the Nirvanix site, where Stephen recently took on the role of Director of Consulting. For those who, like me, are starting to get a little confused by his many online presences, he has posted an explanation of what we can expect from this new blog and how it compares with the other two, Packrat and Gestalt IT. Stay tuned for more about the prolific Stephen F. on this blog very soon.
More changes afoot:
Broadcom has made a hostile bid for Emulex. Dave Simpson‘s (also somewhat new) blog has a perspective.
My nearby neighbor Robert Scoble has been hired by Rackspace to build a whole big community thing called Building 43. Some interesting commentary by Rich Miller on Data Center Knowledge. In general, this does raise a question about where companies should draw the line when it comes to social networking experiments that may or may not have anything to do with their bottom line.
And speaking of social networking:
Lots of discussion about Ocarina on Twitter over the last few days. Very exciting times for the company. And it seems that not only Storagebod, but some other bloggers and analysts may be testing it, now that there is word on the street about its 22%+ compression rates on JPEGs.
