Spring Storage Networking World 2009, Here I Come!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 06. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
I’m off to Orlando this morning for Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2009. It will be great to see all of my friends in the industry again, though EMC will be quiet in the run-up to EMC World and the DMX-5 “Tigon” launch mysterious April 14th announcement!
I will be wearing two hats at the show [...]
Changing Times Demand Focus
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 02. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
Corporate IT is at a crossroads. The financial crisis has had a massive impact on budget priorities: Do more with less is the message of the day. But how can this be achieved?
Challenges for Enterprise IT
I’ve spent 15 years focused on the business of IT, with a special interest in data storage, since it makes [...]
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. [...]
Chuck Hollis Gets It!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 01. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
The hardest lesson I ever learned in consulting was how to say “I don’t know.” Here I was, hired on for big bucks, and I didn’t know the answer. But I quickly learned that bluffing gets you nowhere fast. But we’ll come back to that…
In the mean time, I must say how completely impressed I am by [...]
Information, Data, and Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 31. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
My mom had a laugh way back then, when I got my first job in this industry: ” I always knew you’d wanted to be an architect,” she said, “but why does it have to be closets and garages?” That was me, Storage Architect at last!
These days, when another parent at the soccer game or [...]
