Storage Nation

Image via Wikipedia I love receiving suprise packages.  Way back in January, I got a briefing on a VERY cool server offering from Dell that was going to be part of their DCS (Dell Cloud Services) offering.  I, of course, requested one understanding it to be an almost perfect density compute node for my EMC Atmos Virtual Edition testing and design work.

I was talking with my InfoSmack co-conspirator, Greg Knieriemen ( iknerd.com )  last week about virtual junk and how the word "virtualization" was so incredibly unwieldy. It was killing my lazy mouth to have to do so much work for such a well-understood term/topic. (BONUS QUESTION: is "virtualization" a noun, verb, or WHAT?

Good Day….

Tech is as vulnerable as any other industry to the purchasing behavior of its customers.  According to this article, IT hardware sales are “poised for modest growth in 2010″ following one of the worst years companies have seen.  Server revenues dropped 17% last year, and “external storage subsystems” dropped by 10% — if you believe

Cool new toy just landed in my lab for a production VMware vSphere implementation.