Storage Nation

I'm on vacation this week — no blogging, no twitter, etc. — but I did manage to get around to checking my blog for any interesting comments.

This one is most definitely off-topic, but you might find it interesting. Last Sunday, I broke down and bought a non-3G iPad.  I just was too damn curious.  Walked into the Apple Store, played with it for 5 minutes, gave them my credit card, and walked out 15 minutes later.  Brought it home, set it up, downloaded some interesting stuff, and had a blast.  Big geek fun. I then went off to work for the week, and left it home.  And that's when things got interesting ..

The other news item I alluded to in the previous post is a little company called Nasuni.  I chatted with them at the urging of the smartest PR person in the business, Judy Smith at JPR Communications, a couple of days ago and I thought I would share my views here. Here is a pretty picture

It's 2010, and we're off to the races already … Today's a cquisition announcement of Archer Technologies is likely a harbinger of what we'll see from EMC during 2010 — swift execution around strategic themes that we've already discussed. The first order of business — a hearty "welcome aboard" to Jon Darbyshire and his world-class team.  We're proud and excited to have you as the latest member of the RSA and EMC family! And, for the everyone else, I'd like to share a bit of the story behind the story …

I totally love my Drobo but….I have to honestly say, its missing some key features… So over the past two days, I have covered the Drobo technology pretty extensively, all the way from the introduction of the 2 new Drobo’s to what the technology offers today, configuration, setup, overhead, data protection, etc.

I knew trouble was afoot a while back, first when Oracle acquired Virtual Iron , and later when they announced their intent to acquire Sun. I told people at the time "Larry Ellison and Oracle are going to do everything in their power to lock out VMware".  People didn't really believe me.  Now it's pretty clear to all what the picture looks like. Which brings up the inevitable questions of "why?" and "what happens next?" So let me attempt a few answers ..

One of the more popular questions that gets directed at me by journalists and others these days is around the above topic. I guess since EMC does storage — and is very active in things cloud-like — they expect us to have some nice sound bites