Tag Archives: Marc Farley

All good things…

by Sunshine on March 31, 2010 in Ocarina, Storage

Today is a bit of a sad day for me, as this will be my last post on Online Storage Optimization. For those who are just joining us, I’ve been the regular “newsy” blogger on this site. It’s never been a traditional setup. I’m not an employee of this blog’s parent, Ocarina Networks. Rather, I’m [...]

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How do you get your storage news?

by Sunshine on February 9, 2010 in Ocarina, Storage

For IT decision makers it’s imperative that you keep up with the latest news and information. Yet, the overall shakeup of the media has left many confused about where to turn. Industry pubs are getting slimmer and slimmer. Some are cutting back, others are consolidating, and a few have disappeared entirely. At the same time, [...]

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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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Tech Field Day – The Home Stretch

by Sunshine on November 13, 2009 in Ocarina

It really has been a field day the last day and a half here in Silicon Valley. We’re in the final stretch of the Gestalt IT sponsored Tech Field Day, which brings together independent bloggers from around the globe for hands-on demos at Silicon Valley storage and virtualization companies. The participants are some of the [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Storage News and Views – June 17

by Sunshine on June 17, 2009 in Storage

Summer is almost here, and despite rumors of a recession, the malls are filling up with shoppers seeking bathing suits, sunblock, iPhones, and other de rigueur gear of the season. Here in storage land, the latest industry news continues to amaze, amuse and baffle. Here are a few headlines that caught our eyes: Data Domain [...]

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EMC Outbids NetApp – Who Will Bag Data Domain?

by Sunshine on June 1, 2009 in Storage, Storage optimization

Exciting news broke this morning in the storage world – EMC has made a $1.87 billion counterbid for Data Domain, against NetApp’s original $1.5 billion offer in late May. We will have some commentary on this soon, but meanwhile, it seems worthwhile to at least aggregate the opinions that are starting to churn out of [...]

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Downages – What do they Mean?

by Sunshine on May 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

Many of us have become extremely dependent on certain online sources–Google and Twitter, to name the most prominent–for our daily work and personal lives. And so when not one, but both of these services are on the blink at the same time, it becomes news. First, there was the slowness of Gmail and related Google [...]

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Storage News and Notes – VMwariness, Greening Storage, Larry Shops

by Sunshine on April 21, 2009 in Storage, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

Happy Tuesday. It’s been one doozy of a week. A heatwave hit Silicon Valley, both in reality and in the more metaphorical sense–in other words, the Sun seemed to be shining all over the place. And it’s also been an exciting week right here at Ocarina, as mentioned in an earlier post. Here are a [...]

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