Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat » Marc Farley Archives – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat http://blog.fosketts.net Understanding the accumulation of data Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:40:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, February 18, 2011 http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/02/22/pile-interesting-links-february-18-2011/ http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/02/22/pile-interesting-links-february-18-2011/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:36:47 +0000 Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=4915 It was a busy week, with Tech Field Day 5 posts coming fast and furious. Now we are on to planning Wireless Field Day, coming in mid-March!

This regular series features highlights from the week.

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Not all bloggers are equally vendor-focused - it's a spectrum

The Vendor Blogging Spectrum

Although most folks know they should take official company comments with a grain of salt, social media muddies the waters. Consider a spectrum of vendor blogs, ranked here from most- to least-forthright:

  1. It’s easy to tell that a blog hosted at “companyxyz.com” is at least a semi-official statement from that company. For examples, see NetApp or HP’s lists of blogs. At the very least, the content of corporate-domain blogs will focus on the positives of the company. This is my preferred venue for business-related blog posts.
  2. There are also independent-seeming official blogs from many companies. Sussing out the corporate can be fairly easy (as in OnlineStorageOptimization) or somewhat more difficult (see CloudStorageStrategy) but a reasonably persistent person can see that these are corporate communications vehicles. Also, see Quest Software’s SQLServerPedia for an excellent example of a community service site!
  3. Companies like EMC encourage employees to create independent blogs outside the corporate domain, but most blogs include an “About” page listing their corporate affiliation. Again, one expects the corporate glow to radiate from these blogs and they rarely include anything but corporate-oriented content. It you’re blogging about your company on your personal blog, you must make sure it’s obvious where you work!
  4. Next are the personal blogs of employees, which may or may not include business content. Many expect that these will disclose employment affiliation but some do not. I have often had to turn to Google or LinkedIn to discover who is and is not an employee of one company or another. This is fine as long as business content isn’t included, but disclosure is a must when there is crossover.
  5. There are also paid placement blogs that serve as PR vehicles outside the corporate domain. Above-board examples like DCIG do an excellent job of providing solid content along with sponsor-oriented paragraphs, but it can be much harder to discover the paid connections in others. Some analysts even speak and write on behalf of their clients with no disclosure whatsoever!

And these are only direct connections. Is a reseller any more independent than a vendor? How about a consultant who gets paid to install and configure the product? Or an analyst who gets paid for strategic advice? Or a reporter taken on a junket? Perhaps the FTC disclosure rules weren’t so crazy after all…

Does Industry Matter?

Surprisingly, the tolerance of readers to vendor bloggers varies greatly by industry. What would be acceptable in one segment would be odious in another.

Base IT infrastructure components (storage, servers, switches) are an incredibly competitive market, so competition from bloggers tends to be equally fierce. The same is true of emerging technologies like cloud computing. Head-to-head competition is going to attract both overt blog battles and covert mindshare wars, so these industries tend to be much more concerned about who is and who is not “a vendor”. Marc Farley’s move from Dell/EqualLogic to 3PAR, for example, was the topic of heated debate due in part to the intense competition between these vendors. Tony Asaro’s blogging and career moves have caused similar debate for much the same reason.

In contrast, virtualization platforms, database software, applications, and development environments are more about making effective use of a singular product. Without the foundation of competition, much less attention is paid to where a blogger works. This is why the hiring of many top VMware bloggers by VMware and EMC hasn’t caused much concern. Who cares if you work for VMware when the relative merits of the platform is not a subject of debate? Folks like Scott Lowe, Ed Saipetch, and Rick Scherer are known for their quality technical contributions, so it’s unlikely that their moves into “the mothership” will change anything. But I know they’ll be watched much more closely from now on…

Case in point: See the recent “best blogs” polls at vSphere-Land and Storage Monkeys: The VMware blogger list includes (by my count) 11 vendor bloggers out of 25. In contrast, the Storage Monkeys site chose to have two separate lists, one for vendors and another for independents. It is interesting that the VMware community thinks nothing of combining “vendors” and “independents”, while the storage community wouldn’t have it.

Another cause of “vendor blogger” FUD is the orientation of the bloggers. Folks who are focused on message tend to be more criticized than those focused on technology. This is not always the case, however. If one became widely known as a proponent of a specific product or technological approach (say, NAS for VMware storage), it would be very difficult for them to make a move to a vendor with an entirely different approach (like a Fibre Channel or iSCSI player).

Expose Yourself!

There are ways to mitigate the impact of a vendor job move, of course. We’ll be talking about these in detail later in this series, but one easy way is to make sure there is a clear distinction between the person and the company. Here are some specific suggestions for your blog:

  1. Create an “About Me” page, obviously linked from every page on your blog, that lists your full name and employer. I shouldn’t have to google you to discover who you are.
  2. Create a separate work blog. Clearly spell out which “hat” you are wearing on each of these blogs, and keep from mixing work and personal content.
  3. Don’t get into personal battles over work-related topics. Remain calm and professional and don’t make enemies. You never know when you’ll be playing for a different team!
  4. Move work content up the stack. The closer you get to the top of the vendor blog spectrum, the less problems you’ll have. Some companies won’t allow a “company.com” blog, but maybe they would allow the creation of a special company-wide blogging site.

Your goal is to be open and honest about who you work for. Above all, remember: Your credibility is the currency of the new social economy!

If you enjoyed reading this, you’ll probably also like my Foskett Services blog!

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Enterprise Storage

Misc

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What’s the problem?

In case you didn’t happen to notice, here’s the change in a nutshell:

When a user “tweets” in reply to another, they normally put that user’s name (with an “@” sign) at the front. For example, consider the message, “@3parfarley you just went nuts over this twitter update!” This lets the world know I’m addressing my “tweet” to 3parfarley, but it’s not a private communication (what Twitter calls a “direct message”). Everyone else who follows me would be able to see that message, as would anyone visiting my Twitter profile or using search. This was described in detail by @ev last year.

Now, Twitter has always long had an optional setting which would hide this kind of “@reply” when they were sent to someone I don’t follow. So if brento doesn’t follow 3parfarley, he wouldn’t have to see that particular tweet from me if that’s how he wanted to set his account. This would cut down on the conversational nature of Twitter, returning it more to its initial vision as a broadcast-type micro-blog. But this option was off by default was confusing, so many users didn’t even know they could hide conversations between their friends and strangers. @Ev claims that 98% of users didn’t even use this.

The change was a simple one: Twitter now hides @replies to people you don’t follow. Effectively, Twitter switched this simple setting on for all users. The problem is, they made this mandatory: It’s on for everyone, and there is no longer even an option to turn it off!

Although some initial reports suggested that Twitter was hiding all “mentions” of other users, effectively killing the #followfriday meme, this turned out not to be the case. But the core issue remained: This minor change stifles conversation and discovery of new users to follow.

Why did they do it?

My first question on waking up to this new Twitter environment was “why?”

They couldn’t possibly have done it to respond to user confusion, as Stone initially indicated. Twitter is darn confusing as it is, and this change is minor in comparison to the weird and wonderful way of speaking that has evolved there.

The fact that they eliminated the option is one clue. Twitter could easily have simply turned this option on for all new accounts (or even for all accounts) but allowed us to switch it back off if we wanted to. No, they must have believed they had to get rid of this option for some reason.

The real reason is lurking in Stone’s mea culpa: “there were serious technical reasons why that setting had to go or be entirely rebuilt” and “a new, scalable way to address this need.” In other words, exposing @replies was taking up too much computing power, so Twitter wanted to turn it off to help meet user demand.

I don’t know anything about Twitter’s underlying architecture. But this seems both weird and plausible to me. Since @replies show up even to folks who aren’t following you, there must be something special about them in the Twitter software. And whatever this is, it must take much more CPU power than merely exposing a stream of updates.

The problem is that Twitter’s Stone was entirely disingenuous about this change. He blamed the newbie users, suggested that @replies were bad, and called this kind of tweet “fragmented.” He did everything but admit that there was a technical reason to shut them down.

Out of control

This is called not being honest with your customers and it is the real reason people should be mad. Twitter is desperately trying to keep up with the exploding use of their system, but this wasn’t a good move.

The nature of this change exposes something else about Twitter that I’ve been trying to put my finger on for a long time. We’re all using Twitter wrong! It was never meant to be a global “stream of consciousness” conversation. It was supposed to be a tiny blog! We were supposed to post fully-formed thoughts and links and read the same from others, not hold conversations with @replies.

But history has shown that companies can’t control how their customers use their products! Ever use duct tape on a duct? Or masking tape for masking? Or bailing wire for bailing? You get the picture.

Once people get familiar with a tool, they tend to figure out a way to use it that makes sense to them. And these are often at odds with the originator’s intent. The most successful companies accept what their customers want and adapt to this reality. They realize that their health tonic can be sold in bulk as a popular soft drink or that their farm vehicles are popular for dropping kids off at school.

Twitter didn’t intend for us to use @replies all that much, so they didn’t build it to scale. But most of what we post are @replies today, stressing the system. The answer is not shutting them off. The answer is making them work!

Update: Twitter has sort of reversed course, in the most confusing way possible!

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Apple

Enterprise Computing

Misc

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Enterprise IT

Apple

Life

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]]> http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/05/04/pile-interesting-content-week-2-2009/feed/ 0 Tracking EMC’s Symmetrix V-Max Launch http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/04/14/emc-symmetrix-vmax-launch/ http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/04/14/emc-symmetrix-vmax-launch/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:14:39 +0000 Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=1704 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 here’s a collection of my favorite links and coverage so far. I’ll be updating this list throughout the next few days:

That’s the news that’s fit to print so far! Stick with this post and Gestalt IT’s continuing coverage of the V-Max!

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]]> http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/04/14/emc-symmetrix-vmax-launch/feed/ 2 Consulting Is A Perilous Business But Credibility Is What Matters http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/03/26/consulting-business-credibility/ http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/03/26/consulting-business-credibility/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:31:37 +0000 Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=1661 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. As a provider of consulting services, I just happen to be selling myself instead.

This got me thinking: The real distinction is between buyers and sellers of products and services. There is a spectrum on the sell side between being an independent and a company man, but we are all vendors. Our credibility comes from who we are, not where we work.

The Business of Consulting

Consulting is a simple and perilous business, and it is governed by a simple formula: Billing rate times billability is gross revenue, everything else is overhead. You keep what’s left over.

Only three elements matter to a consulting business, and all are variable

Only three elements matter to a consulting business, and all are variable

There are really only two reasons a customer hires a consultant:

  1. They need specific skills or knowledge
  2. They need focus or manpower

The consulting business rests on these simple elements, and we all try to make the best of them. But at the end of the day, a company that has to make its money selling services has to decide what it wants to be:

  • Strategic and professional services (PS) organizations focus on maximizing rate by specializing in a special area of skill and take shorter-term engagements.
  • Body shops or outsourcers focus on maximizing billability by providing low-rate manpower in long-term engagements.
  • Subcontractors focus on reducing overhead by running lean and outsourcing services to non-employees (typically self-employed “1099″ consultants).

I’m using common jargon here, and most consulting businesses wouldn’t want to be classified into one of these buckets, but the business speaks for itself. For any given consulting shop, ask yourself one question: Which of the three factors in the equation is being maximized?

This simple math deeply affects the life of the consultant. Some decide to go it alone, happily risking a steady income for a higher rate as a 1099 subcontractor. Others choose to stick with the steady life of the outsourcer, accepting a lower pay but knowing where they’ll work each day. Personally, I always gravitated towards the strategic and PS roles because the focus on skills made me feel special.

Who Are You?

Let’s step back to that continuum of supply-siders for a moment. In my field of specialization, enterprise data storage, one can immediately identify some positions along the spectrum:

  • PR people relentlessly and (sometimes) creatively push their clients. They are among the most vendor-focused folks out there because that’s their job!
  • Marketing communications folks have to be creative to create a product-centric point of view, so you can expect solid vendor-angled messaging from them.
  • Product marketing people tend to be much more technical and tend to truly believe in the virtues of their product, since they helped shape it.
  • Subject-matter experts in the vendor and reseller community know the plusses and minuses of the products inside and out and love to get into deep technical discussions.
  • Analysts present their opinions in a balanced way, but the topics they focus on are driven by the vendors they work with.
  • Consultants vary in focus depending on the aims of their company, but tend to be more utilitarian, asking “what does this do for a customer?”

I have great affection for folks in every category on this list. Take Sunshine Mugrabi, for example, a PR pro who has taken that job to a whole new level of relevance with her work for Ocarina Networks. Or Marc Farley, who works somewhere in 3PAR marketing but still manages to crank out hilarious videos and thoughtful commentary. Or Chad Sakac, whose knowledge of VMware and storage makes him credible as much more than “an EMC guy”. And what about storage analyst extraordinaire, Steve Duplessie? This list could go on and on, so please accept my apologies, but I could not possibly include everyone I respect.

What’s the common denominator that makes someone credible? Simply that they rise above their positions to protect and project their personal reputations. Yes, they all work for vendors and they all deliver sales, but their work benefits the community well beyond that.

Credibility

The net is simply that we each build up or tear down our own credibility in life. Consultants, analysts, and pundits do not corner the market, and simply being in one of these fields does not make one especially independent or trustworthy. What matters is what we do with whatever soapbox we have. Do you trust me?

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Storage magazine: seven years' proof of excellence

All things must pass, but it is with a heavy heart that I note that TechTarget‘s excellent Storage magazine has shipped its last issue. No official word has been posted by the company, but it is now widely reported. All print publications are feeling squeezed by a move to online readership which robs print of advertising revenue with its quicker turnaround and lower cost. Like its ancestor, Byte, and PC Magazine, Storage will continue online at searchstorage.com as well as through a controlled-circulation PDF newsletter. I do not yet know which of the excellent staff (writers, illustrators, and editors) of Storage will remain with these online efforts.

A History of Excellence

The final issue of Storage magazine was recently mailed (I grabbed a few extras if you want one!)

The final issue of Storage magazine was recently mailed - I grabbed a few extras if you want one!

Storage magazine was launched in March of 2002 to be “the best magazine dedicated to storage,” in the words of Editor in Chief, Mark Schlack, and it was. It stood out from the crowd right away, with square “perfect” binding and high-quality printing and design. Inside that first issue, one was greeted by fresh and engaging layout and artwork that was both clever and humorous. These would become the trademark of the magazine.

But content was king at Storage, and this is the area with which I am most proud to have been associated. The very first issue featured insightful pieces by Steve Duplessie, Rich Friedman, Richard Scannell, Dennis Martin, Darryl Brooks, and others. They were joined by a who’s-who of the industry, including Jon Toigo, Marc Farley, Alan Radding, Jerome Wendt, W. Curtis Preston, Jim Damoulakis, Tony Prigmore, Marc Staimer, Randy Kerns, and Tom Halfhill, and that was just in the first year! Just about every independent voice in the industry was represented over the next six years.

It was precisely that independence that brought credibility to the magazine. Although they eventually ended their provocative Behind the Firewall insider-tips page, they never allowed the magazine to become an advertorial. Like the companion Storage Decisions conference and seminar series, TechTarget managed both to remain editorially independent and to gather strong support from the industry. No doubt it was the wisdom and experience of the editorial staff, Schlack, Friedman, and Rich Castagna, who ensured balance rather than cheerleading or FUD to dominate the pages. They received recognition, as well: Just look at TechTarget’s award page for a list of “bests”!

My Own Experience

Storage impressed with its design, illustrations, and photography as well as its editorial excellence

Storage impressed with its design, illustrations, and photography as well as its editorial excellence

Storage even found a place for yours truly in their pages: I wrote the Integration column every other month for two years before moving to the Best Practices column through 2007. I also contributed almost a dozen feature articles over the years, the last of which just missed the final issue. I was proud to be listed as a Contributing Editor for all of those years as well, and gave everything I could to keep Storage “the best,” including quoted commentary in many issues.

Every one of my interactions with Storage magazine was positive. The editors always knew how to edit my work to bring out the best. Although I am not truly a journalist, I have learned many things from Mark, Rich, Rich, and the others. And I remain honored to be listed alongside the luminaries whose work appeared next to mine.

I also want to call attention to the standout look of the magazine: I talked to many of the photographers featured on the pages, having had my own photo taken a few times as well as my editorial subjects, and they were truly professionals, drawing out the best in us. The illustrations that graced my columns and articles deserve repeated praise, too, always amazing me with their clever twists on what I wrote.

Storage magazine deserves its place in the enterprise storage industry, as well as the publishing world in general. But more importantly, it earned a place on my bookshelf, and it will remain there. I cannot praise it higher. Thanks for seven great years, and I look forward to working with TechTarget and the excellent staff of Storage in the future!

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]]> http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/12/12/storage-magazine/feed/ 11 3PAR Reserves A Seat At The Solid State Disk Drive Table http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/10/28/3par-inserve-ssd-drive/ http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/10/28/3par-inserve-ssd-drive/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:28:21 +0000 Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=993 Last week, I outlined where the various enterprise storage vendors stood on the key question of whether flash memory is a cache or a disk. In that article, I noted that 3PAR is notably absent in the enterprise flash world. In fact Mark Farley, 3PAR blogger extraordinaire, recently made it sound like 3PAR would sit on the fence for a good while longer, even comparing flash with optical technology (ouch!)

Well 3PAR is on the fence no longer. Marketing VP, Craig Nunes, has informed Chris Mellor of The Register that 3PAR will use flash as “tier-0″ storage in their InServe arrays. It is not clear how the company will integrate flash with their current strategy of wide-striping data across as many spindles as possible, but their post-RAID virtualized architecture ought to be able to make excellent use of the performance that flash drives bring, provided they have automated block-based tiering. And answering my question from the other day, 3PAR is definitely in the “flash is a disk” camp.

This is not an official announcement, and no dates or suppliers are given beyond the promise that the InServe is ready to handle FC SSD drives today. I look forward to Marc’s take on this!

Update: Marc’s response was sort of a non-response. He admits that SSDs are on the radar but insists that they’re not on the release roadmap, denies that there is “some sort of like weird greco wrestling match” between him and Craig Nunes (boy, that’s a relief!), and promotes 3PAR’s Dynamic Optimization technology, which I wasn’t aware of. I’d like to hear more, Marc!

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