Boston Folks: Come to CloudCamp!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 24. Jul, 2009 | View Comments
CloudCamp Boston is just a week away, and I’m really looking forward to it. After my great experience at CloudCamp Columbus last month, I was pleased to discover I would be in Boston when CloudCamp rolled in there, too. If you’re in the Boston area and are interested in cloud computing, I urge you to [...]
TechTarget Posts 2009 Event Schedule
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 22. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
Although the details have not been released, TechTarget updated its web site today with a list of events by region for 2009. My understanding is that, although the formats and locations are tweaked slightly, the user-focused character of their excellent Storage Decisions conferences and one-day seminars will remain.
Some highlights from the calendar:
The Storage Decisions conferences [...]
Toronto Seminar: Do Canadians Virtualize?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 08. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
I’m off to beautiful Toronto, Ontario, Canada for tomorrow’s storage virtualization seminar. It will be very interesting to learn if there are differences between the two countries in terms of technologies employed or (more likely) business objectives served by server and storage virtualization technology. As I noted after my date with Charlotte, American companies are increasingly [...]
Can’t Get There From Here
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 30. Nov, 2008 | View Comments
I’m currently making my travel plans for my final storage virtualization seminar. Or, to be precise, trying to make my plans. You see, apparently one cannot (reasonably) get from Cleveland to Toronto, even though they’re only 193 miles apart.
Want a direct flight? That’ll be $1,080 round trip on an Air Canada Dash-8. But it only [...]
Storage Virtualization Charlotte: Thoughts and Reactions
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 21. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve just finished my day in Charlotte on my Storage Virtualization Seminar tour for TechTarget. We had another great crowd – everyone seemed interested even if some were shy about speaking up. I was especially pleased to see the optimism about the city’s post-Wachovia future.
Comments at the event focused on management, with my concerns about [...]
Storage Decisions New York 2008 Feedback
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 24. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
Key takeaways from my Storage Decisions New York 2008 sessions: segment email archives, get legal involved on retention policy, consider the impact of VMware VDC-OS
Which Storage Protocol For VMware?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 18. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
I had two great storage virtualization seminars this week, in New York and Philadelphia. As usual, audience participation was key, and interest in VMware and Hyper-V remains high.
One of the main questions I always get is which protocol one should use for VMware storage. My recommendation remains that the answer is an organizational one more [...]
Storage Virtualization: What Is It Good For?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 17. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
Even though storage virtualization technologies have been on the market for 20 years or more, and numerous companies have tried to sell it as a product in its own right for at least half that long, many are still unsure of what to do with the technology. A great new piece by Dave Raffo, News [...]
Justifying Email Archiving
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 09. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
Now that my TechTarget Virtual Seminar on email archiving is finished, I wanted to share the questions and answers from the session here. You will eventually be able to catch a recorded version of the presentation on TechTarget’s searchexchange.com site, and I’ll post when it’s out.
Interestingly, most questions revolved around justifying the purchase of email [...]
Which Storage Protocol For VMware?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 07. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
One of the hits from my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar this week was a discussion of the relative merits of different storage protocols. Sounds deadly, but this can be quite a religious issue for folks, and it generated lively debate. I’m firmly in the “do what works” camp – there is no always-right [...]
