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Archive for June, 2009

Edwin Yuen, a Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft's Integrated Virtualization team, recently posted a blog on storage migration in a virtualized environment. Why is this so important? Migrations of any type can be some of the most difficult tasks businesses face and require plenty of careful planning, planned downtime, and lots ...
The 'cloud' has certainly captured the attention of our industry - an industry, after all, that loves nothing better than a bright shiny new trend. Today most vendors seem a lot more in love with it than many users, but - heck - we'd rather the vendor community was leading ...
Mark Bowker and Brian Babineau kicked off a series of events today - more soon (Dallas, NY, Hartford) and a ton more in the fall.  As far as I know, they are only U.S. now, but assuming they are valuable, I suspect at least Europe may see some action later ...
Yes, some vendors are pushing this.  Although it sounds compelling in theory, users are not buying.  See my Network World blog for more.
I could not help myself, but The FTC is thinking about regulating blogs.  I, for one, could not be happier.  In fact, lets get this through Congress right now.  In all seriousness, why don't we have full disclosure on blogs like stock analysts have it.  My full disclosure? I would rather ...
I've been watching this whole event from the get go - and it continues to be fascinating.  Quick recap: I think it's too much money for either of them to pay. If the offers were 100% identical, and I were the sole vote and had to determine where the best fit for Data ...
Just this week, NetApp held its annual Analyst Event, and was nice enough to take my colleagues and me to dinner the night before. Although very courteous of them I'm not wasting your reading-time to simply recount that I ate well. What I want to pass along is what happened ...
To protect sensitive data, many storage vendors now offer encryption capabilities with their enterprise-class systems. In spite of increasing privacy legislation and an avalanche of publicly-disclosed data breaches, most large organizations believe their enterprise storage systems are relatively well-protected and thus continue to forego encryption.  Some storage vendors are now ...
Against all odds, Nick Glasgow has found not only one, but TWO donors with perfect 10 of 10 matches! More here. Thanks to everyone who helped - it was truly a global team effort!!! Now that's worth blogging about!
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