Data Protection in the “New World”
Its time I get back to writing about more than just topics that surround what IBM are doing in the [...]
Tag: "Compression"
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Storage Alchemist in Lubianijana, Slovenia and Umag, Croatia
Okay, so I rounded out my trip after leaving Prague to Slovenia and Croatia. In both locations there was an [...]
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 [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Use IBM for VM Deployments
After a full first day at VMworld, I started to think more about IBM and their technology solutions that [...]
Virtual Disk Storage
History truly does repeat itself. We are talking about the history of data storage. Every once and a while a [...]
Data Protection, Retention and Archive Starts with Data Value
It feels good to open up the blogging again to new topics, especially ones I am intimately familiar with. (But [...]
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 Hellabyte & the Storage Efficiency Evangelist
What had started out as a joke to a bunch of Californians has turned into “The Official Petition to Establish [...]
Flood Affects Storage Industry
There was a great post a couple of weeks ago, with Tom Coughlin as a contributing editor, on Forbes’ news [...]
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 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 [...]
Efficiency vs. Optimization
“Storage Efficiency” has become a big topic over the past 12 months. There are a number of new technologies that [...]
