Storage Nation

We've all been hearing about it for a while, but I've just noticed that Cisco is getting more public in talking about their OTV (overlay transport virtualization) technology. I consider this one of the key "enabling technologies" for many cloud models, and private clouds in particular. And here's why ..

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Why Cisco’s OTV Matters For The Private Cloud

"Nothing good is easy ; nothing easy is good". I don't remember who said that originally, but that thought has always stuck in my head. And as I work with more organizations who have started down a private cloud road (or something very similar), I'm beginning to see repeatable patterns emerge

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Private Cloud Adoption — The TOS Model

Two weeks ago, I posted " My Friday Rant " — nothing more than getting a few industry observations off of my chest without provoking the usual competitive response.

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My Friday Rant (Again)

Last September, I wrote an extended post on " Overcoming Distance ". In it, I made the case that real-world issues around coordinating multiple copies of information at significant distances permeated so much of how we think about IT on a global scale. Now, looking back, I realize my mindset might have been wrong

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Exploiting Distance

We all know it's a far cry between pretty vendor powerpoints and actually making this stuff work in a live enterprise IT environment. Fortunately, we are getting much better at bringing our own internal experiences to bear in a way that many people are finding increasingly useful. And this is shaping up to be pretty cool, indeed ..

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Where The Rubber Meets The Road

Chris Evans has some thoughtful commentary about the latest round of "storage guarantees" that are popping up in our industry. We at EMC are always asked if we're going to do something like that. The answer is "yes" and "no"

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Of Storage Guarantees And Other Shenanigans

We've now moved beyond the vision and enabling technology discussion with private clouds.  We're seeing more and more IT organizations start to put adoption strategies in place. And, with large numbers usually comes inherent patterns . In this post, I'd like to talk about the three primary adoption models we're seeing, and some of the context that leads to their choices

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Private Cloud Adoption Models

Cleversafe is pleased to announce our 3rd place finish in the StorageMonkeys Top Storage Vendors Blogs for 2010. You may be confused based on the official results posted on StorageMonkeys that placed Cleversafe in 21st. We are not calling for a revote, but perhaps a more equitable calculation is in order, you review the math…             Rank Company Blog Votes Employee #* % 1 Zetta Zetta blog 39 25 156.00% 2 Nirvanix Stephen FoskRead More…

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Cleversafe Ranks Third in StorageMonkeys Top Storage Vendor Blogs – 2010

So many things are tantalizing mixes of unknown opportunity and unknown risks.  And, certainly, for many enterprise IT organizations, the topic of "cloud" certainly fits this description. You can't hide your head in the sand.  You can't plunge headfirst into it and ignore the obvious risks. In between these two extremes is the notion of governance: a policy-making function that attempts to assess opportunities and risks in a dynamically changing environment.  Several years ago when I was doing the corporate social media strategy thing, I found that a good governance model can accelerate change.

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A Cloud Governance Model for Enterprise IT

I was at a customer dinner event last night, and predictably I got asked what I thought about yesterday's NetApp announcement by several EMC people.

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A New Chapter Begins In The IT Stack Wars