For IT decision makers it’s imperative that you keep up with the latest news and information. Yet, the overall shakeup of the media has left many confused about where to turn. Industry pubs are getting slimmer and slimmer. Some are cutting back, others are consolidating, and a few have disappeared entirely. At the same time, [...]
Storage News and Views – January 19
by Sunshine on January 19, 2010 in Blogroll, Storage
Bleary-eyed, the storage industry has begun to wake up from its holiday stupor. VMware has decided to go into the email business. EMC continues to vacuum up talent like a Roomba on a tear through the world’s biggest living room. Meanwhile, the jokers over at Gestalt IT are picking up the “Fake Steve Jobs” meme [...]
Happy New Year
by Sunshine on December 29, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT
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 [...]
Jingle Bell Storage Rock
by Sunshine on December 22, 2009 in Uncategorized
‘Tis the season for holly hocks, eggnog, and pundits predicting industry trends for the coming year. Apparently, in the storage blogo-tweet-osphere, getting in the holiday spirit means poking fun at one another. One of the most notable entries is a series of “Letters to Father Christmas” penned by none other than one of our favorite [...]
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 [...]
Ocarina: The Movie
by Sunshine on August 21, 2009 in Ocarina, capacity optimization
As many people know, Ocarina Networks has been living up to its name lately. It really is becoming a “network”-oriented company, inking partnerships with just about all of the top storage vendors–HP, BlueArc, Isilon, and so on and so forth. This is great news for storage customers, who can now depend on the very best [...]
Storage News and Views – June 25
by Sunshine on June 25, 2009 in Storage
It’s almost July 4, and I hope all of you are starting to stock up on hot dogs, buns, American flags and sparklers. And for all you Florida folks, enjoy setting your own fireworks. When I was a kid, we had an uncle who lived in Miami who brought them up to us every year–completely [...]
Why Dedupe? It’s the Economy, Stupid
by Sunshine on June 19, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage
Beth Pariseau at TechTarget has an interesting article this week about how a combination of storage tiering and dedupe are just right in these recessionary times. It talks in some depth about Ocarina‘s deployment at Rainmaker Entertainment on BlueArc and Isilon. The article is worth a read all the way through, as it gives some [...]
Storage News and Views – June 17
by Sunshine on June 17, 2009 in Storage
Summer is almost here, and despite rumors of a recession, the malls are filling up with shoppers seeking bathing suits, sunblock, iPhones, and other de rigueur gear of the season. Here in storage land, the latest industry news continues to amaze, amuse and baffle. Here are a few headlines that caught our eyes: Data Domain [...]
Twitter – Not for the Faint of Heart
by Carter George on April 24, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, Ocarina, capacity optimization
Earlier this week on Twitter, we experienced what it’s like to have real time, public discussions with bloggers, analysts, and journalists about our product. It was a great example of why Twitter is such a powerful tool for talking about technology–not to mention one that can be a little hair-raising. It started when Martin Glassborow, [...]
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