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Storage News and Views – January 19

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Dedupe for Primary–Everyone’s Talkin’

by Carter George on October 7, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

It’s very interesting to write for a blog that is focused on a specific topic–in our case, dedupe for primary–and then suddenly see the whole world wake up to the reality of it all at once. There has been quite the pile-on in the storage blogosphere of late. So, what has been said so far? [...]

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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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EMC-NetApp: The Blog-Off

by Sunshine on June 15, 2009 in Blogroll, capacity optimization

Storage giants EMC and NetApp have been fierce competitors for some time now, and so it’s not unusual to see dueling blog posts between them. However, nothing beats the back and forth blog posts we’ve been seeing since the bidding war began to heat up between them for deduplication specialist Data Domain. And even in [...]

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EMC Outbids NetApp – Who Will Bag Data Domain?

by Sunshine on June 1, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization

Exciting news broke this morning in the storage world – EMC has made a $1.87 billion counterbid for Data Domain, against NetApp’s original $1.5 billion offer in late May. We will have some commentary on this soon, but meanwhile, it seems worthwhile to at least aggregate the opinions that are starting to churn out of [...]

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Chuck’s Heart-Shaped Post a Winner

Chuck’s Heart-Shaped Post a Winner

by Sunshine on February 12, 2009 in Storage

Chuck Hollis at EMC’s post today is an early Valentine’s Day card to the small but growing storage blogger community. Listing some of the most active and well-respected bloggers, he gives props to all of them, underlining their unique qualities. This post couldn’t have come at a better time, as there has been a small [...]

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