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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
- All good things… March 31, 2010
- Get Ready for Dedupe 2.0 August 27, 2009
- Compression and Dedupe like Oil & Water? March 31, 2010
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The impending storage crunch
July 28, 2008
- Cloud Humor Hits Blogosphere February 20, 2009
- Dedupe for Primary – Another Shade of Blue March 9, 2009
- Tiered Storage – A Virtual Future August 20, 2009
- Tech Field Day – The Home Stretch November 13, 2009
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Who’s Really Melting the Ice Cap?
May 21, 2008
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Ocarina Goes To Hollywood
February 19, 2009
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Announcing the DR4000 backup-to-disk appliance
January 13, 2012
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Sharing Our Storage Vision
April 15, 2011
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Dedupe & Compression for Long-Term Archival?
October 1, 2010
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Dell Day 2
August 2, 2010
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Dell to Work with OEMs
July 29, 2010
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InformationWeek Shows Strong Dedupe and Compression Demand
July 22, 2010
- The best is yet to come July 20, 2010
- Accelerating our Mission July 19, 2010
- Passing along what we learned from OEMs July 18, 2010
- Dedupe Or Compression? Both! Optimization or Performance? Both! June 8, 2010
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Sean Phelan: We're excited to have Ocarina join the Dell Team. ...
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Enterprise Features: I'm really excited about the Globabl Dedupe featur...
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josephmartins: A bit late for me to comment, but I will anyway. ...
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Mike Davis: Hi Paul, we are installed alongside a lot of Isilo...
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Paul: Any news on integration with Isilon Systems storag...
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Sunshine Mugrabi: Thanks everyone. It means so much to hear this fro...
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Greg White: Congrats Sunshine. Will miss your blogs, but I wo...
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George Crump: I think I learned more from you, but thanks for th...
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Mike Davis: Everyone at Ocarina sincerely appreciates all the ...
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The Storage Alchemist: Oh, one more question - Deduplication and Compress...
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