Vendor Bloggers 1: Why Does It Matter?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 18. Jan, 2010 | View Comments
What does it mean for the community when independent bloggers go to work for vendors? The Internet has changed the old game of leveraging publications for PR. Can you still trust what you read?
PowerPath To The Virtual People
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 22. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
Hiding in the shadow of the huge VMware vSphere 4 announcement was a very interesting introduction by EMC: PowerPath/VE. As I mentioned in my post on storage changes in vSphere 4, PowerPath/VE plugs into the new pluggable storage architecture (PSA) found in vSphere 4 versions of ESX and takes over the decision-making and heavy-lifting tasks related to communicating with storage systems.D
Tracking EMC’s Symmetrix V-Max Launch
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 14. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
EMC completely took over April 14 to launch their next-generation Symmetrix enterprise storage system. Sporting their new V-Max architecture, the Symmetrix (let’s just call it DMX-5, ok?) is a scale-out system based on standard components wrapped together into a multiprocessing powerhouse.
This news is so fresh you would leave footprints if you step in it, but [...]
Consulting Is A Perilous Business But Credibility Is What Matters
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 26. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
I’ve called myself a “vendor-independent storage consultant” for more than a decade now, but my good friend, Greg Schultz, recently challenged me on that statement. Sure, I haven’t worked for a vendor of tin boxes and spinning rust, or the software that runs the stuff, but I’m firmly rooted in the supply side of things. [...]
