I attended GigaOM's Structure:Data 2012 conference in New York City last week. This is the second one I've attended and I'm now a confirmed advocate of this event. Om Malik brings together people who, in one way or another, represent...
Read More »It is often said that data center-level server virtualization projects created a renewed demand for networked storage, both NAS and SAN. If that's true, then efforts to virtualize desktops--aka virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects--will create renewed demand for high-performance storage,...
Read More »Scott McNealy, former CEO of the former Sun Microsystems, once infamously opined that storage was a (mere) feature of the server. The problem was that at the time he made that comment, the storage industry was writing its declaration of...
Read More »Occasionally we see some learned organization counting the number of bytes of data that humans have produced to date. And I've been known to scoff at these projections. Seriously folks, even if you think that the number is 789.332 yottabyes...
Read More »I've been spinning some cycles lately looking for free data. Why? Here's my thesis: As our use of the cloud evolves, we will come to understand that, to do powerful computational things, we not only don't need to own massive...
Read More »Typically I write about storage. Now, as part of my research, I'm writing about data--data about you. The hottest commodity on the Web right now is data that describes who you are, what you like, what you do, who you...
Read More »John Webster, Senior Analyst and Calvin Zito the @HPSTORAGEGUY discuss the future of deduplication and StoreOnce. The Storage Block Blog
Read More »The storage-focused BD Event wrapped up last week in Boston. If you're an entrepreneur with designs on the enterprise storage market, this was the place to be. Read John's blog about Peter Bell and Peter Levine's commentary. Read the blog....
Read More »Last year, Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. At the time there was much speculation regarding the future of Sun's server and storage hardware business and I heard a number of well thought out opinions. But two seemed to...
Read More »It's Monday morning at EMC World 2011 and EMC Chairman Joe Tucci opens the show with 10,000-plus in the audience. On stage with Tucci are big black boxes. What's wrong with this picture? EMC is no longer a company that...
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