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Over the last week there have been a few stories catching my eye.  Here’s a brief paragraph on them. SGI Acquires COPAN Systems In fact to be more precise, SGI have acquired some of the assets of COPAN and left the liabilities behind for a mere $2 million in cash ( press release ).  The demise of COPAN raises two potential questions; is spin-down a dead technology or were COPAN in a market that wasn’t able to understand their technology

Hitachi Data Systems has been very successful selling the benefits of Storage Virtualization and Dynamic Provisioning.

Yes, I know — all of this talk about private clouds can seem very futuristic to some. In essence, though, we're talking about nothing more than the industrialization of IT infrastructure.  If you're inside the IT business, it all can seem so complex.  But if you're outside of IT, you might wonder "what's the big deal?"

Unlike many of my fellow bloggers, it seems, I have been engaging with consumers — nearly a hundred in the last two weeks — and gathering their insights about this whole tempest in a teapot called on-array tiering.  That’s code for 1) establishing a tier of Flash SSD in a conventional disk array, 2) adding

Way back when, I thought it useful to do two courses of study.  I wanted that CS (computer science) degree, but the whole topic, while fascinating, seemed so self-contained. At the time, I thought adding coursework in economics was the right thing to do.  Even way back in the late 1970s (yes, I'm that old), I could see the two interweaving in very interesting ways.

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We tried a “Top Ten Storage Vendor Blogs” back in July with some questionable results based on how we set up security for the poll. When we tweaked the security for the Top Storage Blogs (Non-Vendor) the feedback was much more positive. So… we are giving this another try BUT…

We all do our blogs as labors of love – they take a lot of work, and it’s done completely on top of our day jobs. I’ve found it a GREAT way to talk with customers, compatriots, and even respected competitors.   It’s been a great way to meet new friends, and learn and share new things. Last year in June, I made my inaugural entry on to Eric Siebert’s “Top VMware Blogs” list.  It matters a lot (to me at least) as it’s the community voting based on the value they get

It's the time of the year where we all write our " year in review " posts, as well as our " looking ahead to 2010 " prognostications.  This year, I'm going to focus on EMC-related news. Why?  It's been an exceptionally busy year for all of us.  And, to a certain extent, what happens at EMC emblematic of the rapid pace of change and evolution across our industry

EMC announced FAST version 1 this week and one of the more insightful articles was by Beth Pariseau of SearchStorage.com. I am fairly certain EMC briefed Beth on this announcement and that she had access to their references, so it’s safe to say her information is pretty accurate here are my thoughts on what I read in the PR and from Beth’s article:   Is EMC behind the competition? – Hitachi has had policy based file and LUN level tiering for some time