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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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Dare to Be… Anyone You Choose!

Dare to Be… Anyone You Choose!

by Sunshine on February 24, 2010 in Analyst, Uncategorized

This Saturday I’m participating in an event that aims to bridge the gender gap in computer science and engineering. It’s the first annual Dare2BDigital, a conference for young women in the 7th-10th grades that exposes them to the new and exciting career options that now exist in computer science and engineering. Why such a young [...]

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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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The Smartest Guys in One Room

by Sunshine on October 1, 2009 in Featured, Storage

This week the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere lit up like a Christmas tree with glowing reports from HP Tech Day–or #HPTechDay as it was known on Twitter. Something of a misnomer, it was in fact two tech days. Held at the company’s Colorado Springs facility, the event was proof that HP has recognized the power of blogging [...]

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VMWorld Turnout – A Sign of Recovery?

by Sunshine on September 2, 2009 in Uncategorized

VMWorld is in full swing in San Francisco this week, and attendance has gone far beyond all predictions. I’ve heard a number of estimates, ranging from 12,000-15,000. In any case, the attendance has blown away their original prediction of 8,000-10,000. Seems there were a lot of last-minute registrees. The downside of this is that the [...]

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Storage Blogging–The Good, The Bad and the Goofy

Storage Blogging–The Good, The Bad and the Goofy

by Sunshine on August 24, 2009 in Blogroll

We’re just one week away from VMWorld, to be held here in San Francisco Aug. 31-Sept. 3 and the storage blogo-tweet-osphere is lighting up like a Christmas tree. This blogger will be there with her trusty iPhone, ready to send out tweets on every imaginable topic, rumor, random thought, and food item she encounters. We’re [...]

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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 [...]

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The Power Dilemma

by Sunshine on August 18, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, green IT

Steve Duplessie has a very interesting post up on his blog today. It is part of a series he’s doing on scarcity. He seeks to understand what made deduplication vendor Data Domain so attractive to both EMC and NetApp. What he comes to is that scarcity is now focused around power, cooling and rackspace. At [...]

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The Dedupe Race

The Dedupe Race

by Sunshine on August 14, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

The storage press has sniffed out a good story recently. Today, Beth Pariseau has a piece up on her Storage Soup blog that hones in on the drama surrounding the technology du jour–deduplication. The post, “HP to EMC/Data Domain: Bring it On” has a headline that’s reminiscent of the sort of fighting words we heard [...]

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The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

by Sunshine on August 11, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

As I mentioned in a blog post yesterday, the media is beginning to swoop down and take note of yesterday’s announcement that HP is now an official reseller of Ocarina. It’s pretty darn big news. Here are some of the better articles that have appeared. I’ll add more as they come in, so keep rechecking [...]

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