Tag Archives: Martin Glassborow

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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Jingle Bell Storage Rock

by Sunshine on December 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

‘Tis the season for holly hocks, eggnog, and pundits predicting industry trends for the coming year. Apparently, in the storage blogo-tweet-osphere, getting in the holiday spirit means poking fun at one another. One of the most notable entries is a series of “Letters to Father Christmas” penned by none other than one of our favorite [...]

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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad, Dedupe?

by Carter George on July 28, 2009 in Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Martin Glassborow on his Storagebod Blog has written a controversial piece raises questions about the two hottest technologies in storage at the moment, dedupe and thin provisioning. In his post, entitled “Living on a Prayer,” he suggests that both of these technologies could be the road to a storage nightmare, in which, “you could be [...]

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Blog Review – Storagebod

by Sunshine on June 16, 2009 in Blogroll

Note: this is the first in a series of posts on the blogs that make up the Online Storage Optimization blogroll. Please look out for future reviews of other storage bloggers. Every once in awhile I find myself enjoying a blog so much that I end up reading several posts in one sitting. Such was [...]

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Storage News and Notes – May 29

by Sunshine on May 29, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

This has been a very interesting week in the storage blog-o-tweet-osphere, and the hottest topic was, somewhat ironically, an announcement that seemed to fall flat. Wednesday, HDS brought out its High-Availability Manager for USP-V (quickly dubbed “HAM” by bloggers), and several bloggers called it underwhelming and confusing. Chris Evans, The Storage Architect – Enterprise Computing: [...]

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Twitter – Not for the Faint of Heart

by Carter George on April 24, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, Ocarina, capacity optimization

Earlier this week on Twitter, we experienced what it’s like to have real time, public discussions with bloggers, analysts, and journalists about our product. It was a great example of why Twitter is such a powerful tool for talking about technology–not to mention one that can be a little hair-raising. It started when Martin Glassborow, [...]

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Happy Earth Day

Happy Earth Day

by Sunshine on April 22, 2009 in green IT

It’s a beautiful, sunny day in San Jose, a fitting reminder of the amazing planet we celebrate today.  To me, every day is earth day, because for now at least, this is our home. We can treat it well, or we can treat it with less than total regard. It’s our choice. On this blog, [...]

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Join the Conversation!

by Sunshine on March 27, 2009 in Storage

There’s a lot of chit chat going on about storage these days – some on the mud-slinging level, some civilized, most somewhere in between. One positive trend is that the blogosphere is becoming less about personalities and more about collaboration and discussion — thanks to Twitter and other networking tools. Storage bloggers, being the smart [...]

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