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Disaster Proof Hardware and a Case of Mistaken Cloud Storage

January 22, 2010

This week it was evident everyone is getting back to work – at least those individuals who still have jobs and received something other than pink slips over the holiday break. People starting returning my phone calls and emails, PR agencies started requesting my time again for briefings and, maybe most importantly, news releases started flowing again so I have something other than 2009 recaps and 2010 trends to write about. This week three news items caught my attention: FalconStor Software’s FDS 2.0 release; a cloud storage announcement from Pillar and a new term (like this industry needed any more): Disaster Proof Hardware.

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2009: The Beginning of the Corporate Love Affair with Cloud Storage

December 18, 2009

This week I wanted to pick up the discussion that I started a couple of weeks ago on the major trends of 2009. In that blog, I examined why deduplication was THE success story of 2009. But an equally compelling trend in 2009 was the emergence and growing acceptance of the use of cloud storage as a storage target among organizations of all sizes.

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A Private Cloud with Vendor Lock-in Beats a Discombobulated Mess

November 6, 2009

The big news in the industry this past week was around the private cloud announcement made by and between EMC Corp., Cisco Systems Inc and VMware. In brief, these three companies are aligning to provide integrated virtualization product bundles for midsize, large and enterprise organizations that are referred to as Vblocks. Conceptually and practically, this is a smart move on the part of these three companies to deliver this type of service. Though some reports cited fear of user lock-in if this configuration is deployed, one would think concerns about deploying a private cloud that does not work as expected would be far greater.

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Asankya Networks Creates New Paradigm for WAN Acceleration in the Cloud

October 14, 2009

Every time I attend an SNW one particular technology captures my fancy and this one was no different. However what caught my attention this time has nothing to do with deduplication or solid state drives which I fully expected given the focus on these two technologies the past year or so. Instead it was a networking company called Asankya Networks from Atlanta, GA, that stands to revolutionize how companies think about cloud computing.

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High Performance HDDs Face Increased Pressure from SSD; Fall SNW Day 1 Recap

October 13, 2009

Every Storage Networking World (SNW) show has a certain theme to it and this year’s fall show in Phoenix, AZ, is no different. Presenters are still talking about technologies like data protection, deduplication and WAN optimization but solid state drive (SSD) technology was front and center on Day 1. Every session on SSD that I attended was full with standing room only in some sessions and those in attendance were definitely engaging the presenters as they sought to gain as much information at they could about SSD.

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VMworld a Mixed Bag so far for Attendees; VMware Plans to Reach out to ESXi Users

September 1, 2009

VMworld 2009 is now well under way and considering that it is sponsored by a company (VMWare) that sells virtualization software, I have to compliment it for keeping its focus on the new business problems that its technology can solve. However my concern is that anytime a provider starts doing that, customers end up buying promises as opposed to software that can solve their day-to-day tactical problems.

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Cloud Storage Poised to go Mainstream by 2012 but still a Marketing Ploy for now; NetApp Announcement Underwhelms

August 28, 2009

The last month or so I have spent a lot of time doing research on cloud storage. Its terminalogy, who the providers are, its maturity (or lack thereof) and who (if anyone) is taking advantage of cloud storage and supporting it have all been questions I have been asking. “Why?” you may ask. Simple. A survey conducted by Applied Research at the behest of F5 Networks and released this past Monday finds that more than 80% of IT managers are discussing or implementing public or private cloud solutions. Now when’s the last time you recall seeing a statistic like that?

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Nirvanix Weighs in on Cloud Storage; ‘Harmonic Mean’ Now Part of the Data Deduplication Discussion

August 21, 2009

Over the last couple of weeks my weekly recap blogs touching on the subject of cloud storage has prompted a lot of emails and phone calls to me in the background to discuss this topic so I wanted to touch on that again this week. In addition, I’ve also been doing a little research into some of Data Domain’s claims (and the counterclaims of its competitors) in regards to the advertised performance numbers on its new DD880 and under what conditions enterprise users might expect to achieve those numbers. Finally, I wanted to comment on some of the statements that I made last week about a CEO change and a corporate acquisition and end up with a new rumor that is circulating in the storage industry.

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Highlights from the Spring SNW Cloud Computing Summit

April 16, 2009

I was not the only one from DCIG attending SNW last week: Kelly Polanski, a Contributing Analyst with DCIG, was also in the SNW mix. While I took briefings and caught up on the latest advancements in specific products, Kelly attended the afternoon SNW Summits. Following these Summits, she provided me with some of her notes. I found some of the information significantly compelling, and so I’m sharing them now with DCIG’s readership. Today’s blog shares some of the insights that Kelly gained from the Cloud Computing Summit on April 6.

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EMC Symmetrix V-Max – It’s About Time

April 14, 2009

This morning EMC announced its new Virtual Matrix Architecture as well as it new third generation Symmetrix V-Max based upon the Virtual Matrix Architecture. Since EMC has been hyping this announcement for at least a couple of weeks if not longer, I felt obligated to pop in and listen to the pre-recorded webcasts by EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci and EMC’s Storage Division President, David Donatelli, that highlighted the major aspects of this new release from EMC. And while it is impossible to summarize all of the features that a high end system like the Symmetrix V-Max will deliver, my initial thoughts were: “It’s about time”.

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