Desinging Storage Architectures
An interview about designing new storage architectures I did while at FedScoop this year in Washington, DC. Send article [...]
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Flash is Really about Economics
Kudos to IBM! For the first time since I can remember, they have come out, loud and proud about storage [...]
The Storage Alchemist from Strata 2013
The Storage Alchemist talks about his findings from Strata 2013. Interesting that there wasn't much talk about infrastructure and infrastructure [...]
Deduplication for Flash / SSD & Tiering
As a part of being a storage evangelist, I spend a lot of time educating sales as well as customers [...]
The Business End of Storage
Last week I presented at an event for Storage Magazine in the famous London Tower Bridge (shown here) It was [...]
EasyTier Trumps FAST
So, it has been a while but I wanted to start sharing a lot of the great things going on [...]
Fixed Input vs. Variable Input Compression
As a number of you know, I have been blogging about the merits of Real-time Compression. It may be of [...]
Storage Efficiency Panel – SNW 2011 Fall
Yesterday I was on a panel at SNW in Orlando Florida. The panel was hosted by Dave Vellente, Founder of [...]
The Storage Alchemist in Prague
Alright, landed safe in Prague and was picked up by one of my colleagues and whisked away to the IBM [...]
The Storage Alchemist in Moscow
The first city on my Eastern European trip was Moscow. I think the traffic here is worse than the [...]
Flash: Accelerated Adoption
As any new technology comes to market, in IT we see the adoption of that technology, as long as it [...]
“Big Enough” Data
Say the word “infrastructure” at Strata conference and you hear people start talking mostly about software. One of the biggest [...]
Big Data Catches a Killer
One of my favorite shows is Criminal Minds. I think most people that are like me, like those sorts of [...]
Big Data is OUT, Real-time Data is IN
Okay, the time has come to retire “Big Data”. There was a great post in TechCrunch at the begining of [...]
Flape and Floud
Last week, in the midst of doing research on Flash/SSD I spent a good deal of time speaking to one [...]
Defining Big Data
Tuesday night I attended an event – storagefest II 2012, which was hosted by Valhalla Partners. The event was a [...]
Dell/Ocarina – Too Little, Too Late
On October 11, 2011, at Dell World, Dell announced a component to their DX6000G object based storage called an “SCN” [...]
Marketing Gone Awry
Okay, so not many times will you see a blog post from me admitting that, perhaps the marketing and messaging [...]
The Storage Alchemist in Sterdyn (Poland)
After landing in Warsaw, I got into a car with the local sales leader for Poland and we drove to [...]
5 Most Interesting Things at VMworld 2011
Two solid days at VMworld 2011 and I got to do and see a lot. Here is a breakdown of [...]
