Tag Archives: EMC

Tech Field Day Redux

by Sunshine on March 22, 2010 in Featured, Storage

It’s back… That’s right, on Gestalt IT you can now find details on the upcoming Tech Field Day, to be held in Boston April 8 and 9. This event brings together bloggers from around the world for two days of deep dives at tech companies. The result is expected to be a multitude of tweets, [...]

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Storage News and Views – March 17

Storage News and Views – March 17

by Sunshine on March 17, 2010 in Storage, Storage optimization

Across the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere today folks are donning green scarves, putting four leaf clovers in their lapels, and generally proclaiming the luck of the Irish. Yes, it’s a good life in storageland. And there’s plenty of news to amuse and bemuse. EMC made a big splash this week with a presentation to analysts by President [...]

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Fast and Effective Dedupe

by Carter George on March 3, 2010 in Analyst, Featured, Ocarina, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

I’ve noticed a few blog posts recently about speed of deduplication in the modern data center. I agree that speed is an important factor, but keep in mind that not all dedupe is created equal. That is to say, fast is good, but only if you are also effective. One of the tricky things has [...]

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Dedupealooza

by Sunshine on February 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

So much talk about dedupe these days it’s hard to keep up. The industry is waking up to the reality that dedupe is one of the best ways to reduce data, thus saving on power, cooling, space and other crippling storage costs. Some of the more thought provoking posts of late: DCIG – How SSDs [...]

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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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Going Social – EMC stands tall

by Sunshine on January 11, 2010 in Blogroll, Featured, Storage

If you haven’t yet tuned into the weekly podcast known as Infosmack on community site Storage Monkeys, you’re missing out. Every Monday, hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley bring on guests to dish about the latest storage industry news–and they do so in a very entertaining and informative way. This week’s show was particularly enjoyable, [...]

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Storage News and Views, January 7

by Sunshine on January 7, 2010 in Storage, cloud

An earthquake shook up San Jose (not mention Twitter) today. But that didn’t stop the storage industry’s movers and shakers from making all kinds of interesting news. Here’s a quick roundup from where we sit. A game of musical chairs… EMC lost storage tech consultant and blogger Steve Kenniston to inline dedupe player Storwize, where [...]

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The Year in Images

The Year in Images

by Sunshine on December 30, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

This past year, we at Online Storage Op gathered all manner of images to illustrate our posts. So as a way of looking back at 2009, here are some of the ones we liked the best–and the stories that went with them: Holodeck fun: In February, Robin Harris at StorageMojo wrote about a potential breakthrough [...]

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Dedupe – The Big News in 2009

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 [...]

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OEM or Not, Here We Come

by Carter George on October 28, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage

In today’s UK Register, Chris Mellor talked with Brian Biles of Data Domain about its plans for global dedupe. In it, Brian says that Ocarina is not “synergistic” with Data Domain. Writes Chris: “Data Domain set out to solve a data protection problem whereas Ocarina set out to solve a media management problem.” He then [...]

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