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Some of the more fascinating news to come out of EMC World today is the formation of an industry-wide Technology Advisory Board to help guide EMC and our partners forward as the industry transitions to a private cloud model. Some vendors use market muscle to accelerate these transitions.  Others depend heavily on industry standards efforts to do so.  But both approaches often lack an open forum where issues and tradeoffs can be debated at an appropriate level. Ideally, you'd ask heavy hitters from across the industry to join in, evaluate the options and make specific recommendations back to the vendor community.  And that's what I think we've got here

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I’m not the first to post on the subject of Netapp’s President and CEO Tom Georgens commenting during their latest earnings call on the apparent death of tiering as we know it today. In Netapp’s view, there will be no tiering of storage in the future.  Instead we will be using SATA drives for our data and cache cards.  Here’s Tom’s words, taken from the call transcript : Second of all, frankly I think the concept of tiering is dying.

megan fox 2010 2 girls 1 cup 2010 Just as George McFly became a real man when he embraced his density, so shall we all. This week, two big announcements were made about technologies that will/promise to dramatically increase the storage capacities of magnetic media

Ok, the followup to my earlier post on the latest in the ongoing Oracle/VMware saga has to be heard to be believed.  If you haven’t read the original, please go back there and start there. So, I’m still not going to post the Oracle President’s email address (those furious enough can easily find it by looking at other posts).  I’m also not going to post his original comments, which were paraphrased, so I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt (being a public face can be hard – trust me).   But, I’ve seen the form response (clearly an automated response or a cut/paste based on some typos) – so I will put it here, it shows incredible insight into what we’re dealing with here.   If you’re curious – and who couldn’t be – read on… First of all – are you pissed about Apple’s shutdown of Google Voice or other apps?   I am.  I think it’s ridiculous.   There’s clearly logic in the “keep the experience nice and integrated”.  That’s thinking about your customers

Today Dan Warmenhoven, our previous CEO, announced that Tom Georgens is our new CEO.

Last night I watched the NBC special ” Inside the Obama White House ” .