Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, January 7, 2011

It’s been a slow week (the holidays) and a crazy one. I’ve started pouring out the thin provisioning series, with 10 posts so far, as well as launching a new video “talk show” about enterprise IT. And I’ve got a new post over at SearchStorage, too. Whew!

• My State of the Art Thin Provisioning series
  • Storage is Not Getting Cheaper
  • Thin Provisioning: Attacking Storage Utilization
  • De-Allocating is the Core Issue for Thin Provisioning
  • Thin Provisioning: Playing the Telephone Game
  • Monitoring Filesystem Metadata For Thin Provisioning
  • Zero Page Reclaim: Savior of Thin Provisioning?
  • What is WRITE_SAME? Green Eggs and Ham!
  • The Bridge: Veritas Thin (Provisioning) API
  • Is TRIM Useful For Thin Provisioning?
• The Raising the Floor podcast series
  • Raising the Floor 1: Cloud Storage Gateways
  • Talking Cloud Storage Gateways With Nasuni and Cirtas
  • Raising the Floor: How the Cloud Impacts Enterprise IT
• Tech Field Day links
  • Data Robotics Is First Three-Time Tech Field Day Presenter
  • The Nerd’s Going to Have a Field Day! | The Networking Nerd
• And more links!
  • I wrote this piece for SearchStorage: Is PCIe SSD right for you? Deploying PCI Express SSD devices
  • I was interviewed for another thin story: Thin provisioning driven by technology advances, best practices
  • My friend Erin Collopy from HP is starting a blog: A new year, a fresh slate « Social Swimmer
  • Bob Plankers always impresses with his technical writing: How To Create and Measure NTFS & ext3 Disk Fragmentation
  • I loved this idea from Freedom to Tinker: Monitoring all the electrical and hydraulic appliances in your house
  • Chris Mellor spills the beans on EMC’s big announcement next week: Storage Virtualization, Unified and the VNX
  • Chris also posted a great piece about InPhase: How I watched a holographic storage company implode
  • Then there’s this Winextra bit on Microsoft’s Biggest Mistake of 2010
  • A new EMCer blog, Storage Savvy, has a nice pNFS piece: Why pNFS can be a big deal even if NFS4.1 isn’t…
  • Martin Glassborow is always worth reading: Reading the Ruins
  • Floyd Strimling makes a go at prognostication: Fun Alert: Insane 2011 Predictions That May Come True
  • Another great Bill Hill post on cloud: Cloud Crossroads
  • And Ian Foster isn’t happy with Amazon: Amazon – Masters of marketing or perfecting the art of customer dissatisfaction?

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