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Such Fun… 14 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
With EMC allegedly putting the VMAX into the capacity tier and suggesting that performance cannot be met by the traditional SAN; are we finally beginning to look at the death of the storage array? Th...
You Will be Assimilated. 6 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
So why are the small Flash vendors innovating and the big boys not? Why are they leaving them for dust? And do the big boys care? Innovation in large companies is very hard; you have all the weight o...
Excessive Sorrow Laughs…. 5 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
So you’ve manage to get yourself a job in storage? Commiserations, why did you do something so crazy; I hope you enjoy pain and misery, this is now your world. Perhaps if you do a great job, you’ll co...
Keep On Syncing…Safely.. 29 Jul 2013 | 03:29 pm
Edward Snowden’s revelations about the activities of the various Western security organisations have been both neither a surprise and yet also an a wake-up call to how the landscape of our own persona...
The Landscape Is Changing 11 Jul 2013 | 09:52 pm
As the announcements and acquisitions which fall into the realms of Software Defined Storage or Storage as I like to call it continue to come; one starts to ponder how this is all going to work and wo...
Monomyth 10 Jul 2013 | 10:59 pm
It really doesn’t matter about which Back-Up technology, the myths are pretty much all the same and unless you are aware of them, life will be more exciting for you than it should be…but perhaps that’...
From Servers to Service? 24 Jun 2013 | 09:10 pm
Should Enterprise Vendors consider becoming Service Providers? When Rich Rogers of HDS tweeted this and my initial response was @RichRogersHDS Imagine a bookseller building an IT infrastructure that...
The Reptile House 21 Jun 2013 | 11:46 pm
I was fortunate enough to spend an hour or so with Amitabh Srivastava of EMC; Amitabh is responsible for the Advanced Software division in EMC and one of the principal architects behind ViPR. It was a...
Apple Defaults to Windows Standard 19 Jun 2013 | 03:21 pm
I was looking at the Apple documentation around Mavericks as I was interested to see how they were intending to make more use of the extensive metadata that they have had available for files stored; t...
More Thoughts On Change… 31 May 2013 | 05:08 pm
This started as a response to comments on my previous blog but seemed to grow into something which felt like a blog entry in it’s own right. And it allowed me to rethink a few things and crystalise so...
