Lessons From the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo Prague 2009
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Personal, Virtual Storage on 19. May, 2009 | View Comments
What is the cloud? What will become of it? I spent May 17 and 18 in Prague at the Sys-Con Cloud Computing Conference and Expo exploring these questions with some of the smartest cloud-focused folks in Europe. The consensus: The IT world is changing and remote managed services are a big part of it. Another discovery: [...]
EMC About To Take Us To Maui…
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 07. Nov, 2008 | View Comments
Update: Maui is now Atmos! See my post, EMC Atmos Versus VMware VDC-OS: Will The Real Cloud Strategy Please Stand Up?
Remember all the talk about a year ago about EMC’s mysterious new storage product, code-name “Maui”? It was teased and pulled by Storagezilla, and rumored by one and all… Well, it wasn’t at EMC World, and [...]
Jargon Watch: EMC 3D = Data Deduplication
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 21. May, 2008 | View Comments
Watching the announcements coming out of EMC World today, one bit of jargon stuck out at me: The EMC bloggers are starting to refer to “data deduplication” as “3D”. I had never heard this terminology before yesterday, but the EMCers are all using it, so it must be a popular term inside that company. So [...]
