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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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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. [...]

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What Recession? Part II – Storage Going Strong

by Sunshine on March 25, 2009 in Storage

The recession is and the recession isn’t. It’s an odd beast that way. As I noted in an earlier post, the recessionary economy hasn’t yet translated to massive IT job losses — at least not yet. There are winners and losers, something that’s true in just about any economic climate. And right now, technologies that [...]

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IBM Ink Drying in the Sun?

by Sunshine on March 20, 2009 in Storage

Chris Preimesberger over at eWeek is reporting that the IBM acquisition of Sun for the bargain basement price of $6.5 billion is almost definitely a go and could be announced today or Monday. Writes Chris: “All the indicators point one way: The acquisition of one of the most innovative, risk-taking and open-source-minded IT companies in [...]

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What We’re Reading – Week of March 16

by Sunshine on March 18, 2009 in Storage, capacity optimization

With all the talk about Cisco, the possible IBM-Sun merger, and other hot news of the day, this has also been a remarkable week for posts on other topics of interest to the storage community. Here are a few that caught my attention: HDS – Hu’s Blog – Your Assets, Sweat it or Enhance It [...]

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Here Comes the Sun

by Sunshine on March 18, 2009 in Storage

It’s been an exciting week. Monday, all the talk was on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), which the Ruptured Monkey blog went so far as to compare to the borg. Still reeling from this major piece of news, today we learned that IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems. The great thing about acquisitions–especially [...]

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The Buzz About Woz

by Sunshine on March 3, 2009 in Storage

He may be dancing with the stars, but Steve Wozniak’s storage company is in the news again today. Fusion-io, of which Woz is now chief scientist, has announced an OEM deal with HP. This follows the recent disclosure that Michael Dell was an early investor in the solid state vendor, whose ioDrive Gizmodo has called [...]

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What We’re Reading

by Sunshine on February 11, 2009 in Storage

InformationWeek had some smart pieces this week that are worth checking out. In both of these articles, there is food for thought for the storage industry. First, this piece by Charles Babcock on Russ Daniels, CTO of HP and his view of the future of cloud computing: HP On the Cloud: “The World is Cleaving [...]

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