Storage Nation

Had a chat yesterday with the good folks at Sepaton, who are lately making alliances with everybody and his kid sister to promote their de-dupe play.  A couple of weeks back, they announced a partnership with Symantec OST (Open Storage Technology — hmm), and just this week, they announced a deal with HDS to join

ESJ.com is running another of our C-4 Project video segments, this time with CEO and Chairman of FalconStor, ReiJane Huai.  Check it out. Mr. Huai reflected on his role in bringing tape backup to the distributed world, then offered commentary on several topics of interest including the formation of mini-me mainframes (“if you are going to

My latest column for the Dutch publication, Storage Magazine: The Insulting Thing about Clouds “Cloud computing,” and its conceptual progeny, “cloud storage,” are great ideas. However, these concepts haven’t translated into meaningful technology so far as I can tell.

Sorry for the slow posting here of late.  I have been on the road almost every day of the week collecting video for the launch of the C-4 Project and Virtual Conference.  You will not believe some of the commentary I have gotten from vendors, integrators, resellers and consumers!  It is the proverbial bomb.  (Get