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 [...]
Tag: "Storage Efficiency"
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 [...]
Flape and Floud
Last week, in the midst of doing research on Flash/SSD I spent a good deal of time speaking to one [...]
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 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 [...]
Virtual Disk Storage
History truly does repeat itself. We are talking about the history of data storage. Every once and a while a [...]
Disk Elasticity and Storage Efficiency
Storage is elastic. How do I know you ask? Yesterday I visited a customer who is using the Storwize product [...]
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 [...]
Storage Consolidation Keeps on Truckin’
So the storage sector starts off with a bang when it comes to M&A, driving more consolidation in the market [...]
Defining Cloud
A decade or so ago, service providers made a valiant attempt trying to change the way IT managed there applications [...]
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 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 [...]
