With all the talk about the data inconsistencies around climate change theory, one issue that I’d hate to see lost in the shuffle is the actual environment. That is, while I personally have been skeptical for some time about the alarmist tone many scientists took regarding global warming, it would be a shame if there [...]
The Environment Still Matters
by Sunshine on February 22, 2010 in Analyst, Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT
Dedupe – The Big News in 2009
by Sunshine on December 7, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization, cloud
It’s been a tough year — a worldwide recession, a sluggish housing market, rising unemployment … and on top of all that, the tarnished image of one of sports’ most squeaky clean players. Well, actually, there have been some bright spots. As DCIG blogger and storage analyst Jerome Wendt notes while looking back at the [...]
Techasaurus Rex
by Sunshine on December 2, 2009 in Storage, cloud
Two items jumped out at me this week. First, Francine Hardaway’s post on being an early adopter, “Do You Write in the Cloud?” and second, this New York Times story about Cormac McCarthy’s typewriter. Hardaway, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Stealthmode Partners talks about how she and other bloggers compose their text. Mashable‘s Pete [...]
Storage News and Views, October 23
by Sunshine on October 23, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, cloud
What a long, strange trip it’s been for storage recently. First, there was the disaster that turned out to be less of a disaster than we thought. All those Paris Hilton phone numbers and Perez Hilton black book emails lost to a Sidekick in the ribs … But then it turned out all was not [...]
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 [...]
Chase Tape Fail
by Sunshine on August 7, 2009 in Storage, cloud
Not so funny story. My dad called me up today and told me that he received a letter from his credit card company, Chase. The letter stated that one of their tape backups had been lost. That tape contained information including his name, address, and social security number. The tape was held in a vendor’s [...]
Dedupe Grows Up
by Sunshine on July 29, 2009 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization
George Crump has a piece in Byte and Switch today that poses an important question: “Can we get to a single point of deduplication?” This is a question that we have taken up in one form or another in some of our recent posts, such as this one and this one. In the article, Crump [...]
It’s Getting Cloudy up There
by Sunshine on July 24, 2009 in cloud
Seems Uncle Sam is trying to tighten his belt through cloud computing. Government, at both the federal and state level, is debating how to make better use of this cost-cutting innovation. As we reported a few weeks ago, there are already some initiatives coming down the pike, such as Nirvanix providing cloud storage for NASA [...]
SNW Talk – Building Castles in the Cloud
by Sunshine on April 2, 2009 in Storage
Great line-up of speakers at Storage Networking World next week in Orlando. Among other highlights, Carter George, VP Products at Ocarina Networks and the lead author here on Online Storage Optimization will give a talk entitled “Building Castles in the Cloud: Leveraging Cloud Storage Architecture to Lower Costs” on Wednesday, April 8 at 3:05 p.m. [...]
What We’re Reading – March 25
by Sunshine on March 25, 2009 in Storage
Some very interesting posts and stories out there this week. Here are some that caught our attention. Small businesses find big value in Twitter – Financial Times Storage Resource Analysis – Gestalt IT/Storagenerve Devang Panchigar Cloud Storage Options Multiply – Byte & Switch Woz Staves off Elimination – Computerworld on “Dancing with the Stars” (admit [...]
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