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:
- 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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