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

January 7, 2011 By Stephen Leave a Comment

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
The Raising the Floor podcast series
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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Everyone is talking about â€œsoftware-definedâ€ everything lately, so it was only a matter of time before industry buzz turned to software-defined storage. VMware and EMC really stoked the flames with a constant barrage of marketing directed in this direction. But how exactly do you software-define storage? And what does this mean?

Scaling Storage At The Client

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Why Buy a NEX-7? Why Sony NEX At All?

October 17, 2011

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My Visit to Bletchley Park

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Bletchley Park is much more than a museum. For those interested in the history of computing, like me, or World War II buffs, it’s a must-see. The reconstructed Bombe and Colossus computer are truly breathtaking, and I find myself drawn to the stories of codebreaking that took place here. I highly recommend a visit!

A High-Tech Water Heater? Yep! Introducing the A. O. Smith Vertex

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