Back From The Pile: May 30, 2009

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It was a week of HAM in the enterprise storage industry and angry arguments in the CloudCamp camp. But things looked up at the end with a productive discussion about backups. Google sent us a wave, but nobody was happy when GM threatened to collapse.

Enterprise Storage

HDS’ HAM-Fisted Announcement did not impress, with many wondering (So Long And Thanks For All The Fish) what exactly the company had announced. But by week’s end (USP-V and Hitachi High Availability Manager) we had figured out How It Works and even had some time for jokes.
What should be in the cloud? How about some profiling questions nobody’s asking re: cloud applications
Want your own iSCSI array? StarWind has responded to your comments, 2TB at no cost!
What Is a Backup? Some great discussion (Backup to the Future) and a solution: When Is A Copy A Backup?
Howard Marks is also doing a great job with backup and archiving: See Of Backups and Archives, Storing Archival Data – Part Deux, and All Archive Data is Not Alike
I joined Chris Evans, Marc Farley, and Greg Knierieman for Infosmack Episode #6 – HDS USP-V announcement, EMC non-competes and changes at VMworld
‘Nuff said: And people wonder why I hate HP, Google Could Learn a Thing or Two from EMC, Virtualization: Why Microsoft cares

Misc

Tim O’Reilly took a look at a technology I just didn’t get, but changed my mind with Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?
Want a crazy car to get your mind off of GM and Chrysler? How about the 500-hp Ariel Atom 500 V8
A wonderfully long and detailed article: Lessons from the Vaccine—Autism Wars
Finally, take a look at this amazing video: Louis CK “Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy”

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