There is a definite feeling out there that storage blogging is growing. It’s a more connected, social world than ever before in the past, the result being higher quality content.
Here are some of the tidbits that jumped out at me this week:
Storage Monkeys, relaunched last month (just like this blog!) announced today that it plans to add more social features, with the “goal of being the premier social networking site for storage users, by storage users.”
Beth Pariseau at StorageSoup self-corrected in her discussion with and about Storagezilla’s post over the weekend regarding EMC’s scaled down version of Networked, Fast Start, which can soon be used as a virtual storage appliance. As Beth mentions in this same post, VSAs are a-popping from numerous vendors, and she links to a very interesting post by Storagebod in which he puts several of these products through their paces. Beth is one of that select group of journalists out there who really gets the value of bloggers and blogging.
Meanwhile, there’s a new group blog/magazine on the storage block–Gestalt IT, which brings together voices from storage and IT. Today’s post is by Stephen Foskett–a very active and positive force in the storage blogo-tweet-osphere community–which reacts to what he points out is a bit like the storage Oscars. That is, the announcement of the winners of the Storage Products of the Year awards from Storage Magazine. (Ocarina Networks was named a finalist this year.) Steve has a thoughtful response.
