Nimbus, Nimbus…

February 18, 2013

I don’t want anyone to think I have an axe to grind with Nimbus Data.  I received this tweet this morning… Flash Memory Storage for More Scalable, Less Expensive VMware – @NimbusData #VMwarePEX presentation 2/26 at 11:30am ow.ly/hLryz I replied: @NimbusData What if you just didn’t use VMware. Imagine what Flash SSD would buy you [...]

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SDS Derivative of SDN

February 18, 2013

Okay, so my search for the truth about software-defined storage leads inevitably to its conceptual/marketing progenitor:  software-defined networks (SDNs).  SDN, as a concept, has been around for a few years — a spin-off from virtual LANs (vLAN) and virtual SANs (vSANs) that everyone was talking about over a decade ago.  As this very enlightening piece [...]

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Video Killed the Radio Star

February 18, 2013

That’s one reason why I agreed to do a radio show with the wonderful Alma Redhead of BlogTalkRadio.com.  Here is the link.  Tune in on the Internet Machine at 3PM Eastern tomorrow to listen and ask your questions.  The topic is “Another Perpective on Clouds: Realism vs Marketecture.  Brought to you via Purposeful Clouds, which [...]

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How to Get Rich Blogging?

February 18, 2013

Heck if I know.  I didn’t start this blog to get rich. Heck, when I started it, there wasn’t anything called blogging.  I was just writing down notes, thoughts and links to outside research that were useful for articles or books I was writing and so that I would have access to them when I [...]

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Software-Defined Storage. Huh?

February 18, 2013

The opening line of the Wikipedia entry on Software-Defined Storage is rather edgy, as wiki entries go: “Software defined storage (SDS) is a marketing theme for promoting storage technologies that is currently lacking consensus. It is a reaction to the interest in the Software-defined networking (SDN) debate in the network product market, and Nicira’s high-value [...]

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Feeling A Little Faclempt Here…

February 15, 2013

Pronounciation fer’klemt, fa’klemp Etymology Yiddish or High German Noun faklempt (uncountable) suffering from neurotic symptoms of fear about imaginary threats nervous or sweaty concerned and anxious I always liked Mike Meyers schtik on SNL as the leader of a coffee klutch discussing the errata of the day.  I stepped into a similar situation today on [...]

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Why is Data Protection Needed: The Crux of the Problem

February 15, 2013

From my slides for the Backup and Data Protection Seminar with TechTarget — commencing a 16 city tour in Toronto on 26 February.   Maybe I should have mentioned the threat of meteors, too? Anyway, register to attend here and excuse the scary pic of the guy in the ponytail.

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Acoustic Disk. Sounds like a ’90s Band…

February 15, 2013

Those Oregon State Scientists!  Finally, they have found an application for ultrasound…I mean, other than using it as a tool to shame patients seeking reproductive health services. The idea is simple.  We are almost running out of elbow room on disk drives running perpendicular magnetic recording, which gave us the jump from 200 GB drives [...]

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Mike Check. Check. Check.

February 13, 2013

I got some curious looks at a dinner when I suggested that I did not believe the drive-shortage-because-of-the-Thailand-Floods-in-2012 narrative that many in the industry were peddling most of last year.  And this article confirms my key points. According to Jean-Jacques Maleval, the industry shipped about 63 million 3.5 inch disk drives and about 73 million [...]

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Irritations

February 11, 2013

Someone just forwarded me Infostor’s list of “storage experts you need to follow” or some such thing.  I was happy to see Stephen Foskett and Greg Schulz in the list, as they seem to work very hard to keep current on the latest shiny new technology.  Some of the other folks were in start-ups or [...]

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