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Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, February 11, 2011

February 11, 2011 By Stephen 1 Comment

I’ve spent this week in San Jose, CA at Tech Field Day 5, and that’s the bulk of my news. We heard from great companies: Symantec, Drobo, Druva, Xangati, NetEx, InfoBlox, and HP. Whew!

  • Tech Field Day 5 links
    • Official stuff:
      • Tech Field Day 5: The Links
      • Tech Field Day 5: The Videos
    • Rob Novak shared his Thoughts from Tech Field Day 5
    • A great post by Greg Stuart: Symantec NetBackup 7 for VMware vSphere 4
    • I loved Tom’s Things I Learned From Tech Field Day, Part 1
  • My writing
    • I’ve wanted to write this for quite a while: ATA over Ethernet protocol overview for data storage managers
    • I talked to Intel this week and wrote it up: Where Is Intel’s FCoE Solution?
    • Another big area for my virtual storage seminar preparation: VMware VAAI Storage Array Support in Plain English
    • And finally: Aerobie AeroPress Review: The Hacker Coffee Maker
  • Other great stuff I’ve been reading
    • Barry Burke responded to my VAAI post with some competitive digs: reality check vsp vaai support
    • From Robin Harris is a DEC obituary: Ken Olsen, 1926-2011
    • A clever piece by Tom Petrocelli: Public Clouds : An Unregulated Utility
    • vKernel has a good point to make: Dear CIO’s, Please Send Paul Otellini a Thank You Note
    • Chris Evans covers the arrays we saw at TFD: Data Robotics Releases Business-class Arrays
    • Ivan Pepelnjak (inspired by Greg Ferro): Open FCoE — Software implementation of the camel jetpack
    • I loved this infographic: The Most Common and Dangerous Passwords
    • And this one: A Decade of Storage
    • Another great piece by Chris Evans: Managing iSCSI on Windows 2008 Core with Hyper-V

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