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SNW in Full Swing

SNW in Full Swing

by Sunshine on October 13, 2009 in Blogroll, Ocarina, Storage

Plenty going on in Phoenix this week, as SNW is in its second day. Already, the reports are coming in, making this blogger feel sad, bereft, and out of it for not being there in person–stuck here as I am in the midst of some kind of gale on the Bay Area coast. However, I’m [...]

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Where’s The Growth? Storage!

Where’s The Growth? Storage!

by Sunshine on September 27, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Friday’s CNBC segment is worth a watch if you’re wondering where the greatest growth will be over the next decade in the technology sector. “Everything that we are using now–videos on YouTube. Everything we’re doing on our phone. On and on. It’s all about storage and putting stuff on the net,” opines Roger Nusbaum of [...]

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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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Dedupe Grows Up

by Sunshine on July 29, 2009 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

George Crump has a piece in Byte and Switch today that poses an important question: “Can we get to a single point of deduplication?” This is a question that we have taken up in one form or another in some of our recent posts, such as this one and this one. In the article, Crump [...]

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Storage News and Views July 21

by Sunshine on July 21, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

What is it about mid-summer that turns everyone a little bit mad? EMC is now the proud parent of a baby DDUP. NetApp is $57 million richer. And here in the Bay Area, the weather veers from freezing to sweltering, depending on how close one is to the coast. Here are a few headlines that [...]

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Dedupe for Online – What’s Next?

by Carter George on July 10, 2009 in Featured, Storage

In the wake of the high profile Data Domain acquisition battle, data deduplication is the technology du jour. This has led to wide-ranging discussions on the topic, one of which is the question of where deduplication is being applied. A recent Wikibon article, “Pitfalls of compressing online storage” notes that Data Domain represents only one [...]

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Storage News and Views, July 9

by Sunshine on July 9, 2009 in Storage

The biggest news of the week is of course the fact that EMC has bagged Data Domain, beating out rival NetApp with its superior bid of 2.1 billion, or $33.50 a share. The news itself broke yesterday, July 8, and the Wall Street Journal is reporting that tech stocks rallied today as a result of [...]

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And the Waiting Continues…

by Sunshine on July 7, 2009 in Storage

EMC blogger Storagezilla has summed up the situation regarding the Data Domain acqui by linking to a YouTube video of opera diva Monserrat Caballe performing a duet with Queen’s Freddy Mercury. So, when will the woman of size vocalize melodically?

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EMC increases bid for DD – game over?

by Sunshine on July 6, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

The saga continues — almost to the point of absurdity. As Computerworld‘s Lucas Mearian is reporting, EMC has raised its bid for deduplication specialist Data Domain to $2.1 billion, or $33.50 a share. This well overshadows NetApp’s paltry $1.9B, $30/share bid and most observers are now predicting that NetApp must fold. Indeed, it’s hard to [...]

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Um… can I have an extension on that?

by Sunshine on June 29, 2009 in Storage

I remember asking the above question time and time again during my college years. Well, now EMC is doing the same thing in its offer to Data Domain. EMC extended its deadline, which was set to expire today, to July 10 as a way of enticing it away from its other suitor, NetApp. Will it [...]

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