Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, February 18, 2011

February 22, 2011 By Stephen Leave a Comment

It was a busy week, with Tech Field Day 5 posts coming fast and furious. Now we are on to planning Wireless Field Day, coming in mid-March!

This regular series features highlights from the week.

Tech Field Day related
- One of the biggest announcements at Tech Field Day was Druva, launched at our event. Their presentation drew quite a bit of attention! Can Druva succeed at mobile backup?
- The delegates wanted to share their advice for presenters: How To Give an A+ Presentation at Tech Field Day and Presenting at Tech Field Day
- Another hit presentation was Drobo’s new business products: Tech Field Day #5 wrap-up – Day 1 – Drobo and Drobo – My visit from Tech Field Day
- Then there was Xangati, which had a shortened presentation. TFD5: Xangati — Stepping stone to Skynet or datacenter “DRS”
- The big kick-off was Symantec: Impressions of Symantec from Tech Field Day
- Gestalt IT Tech Field Day #5 Experience
- HP StoreOnce – the basics of HP deduplication
- The HP coffee machine was a hit, too: Introducing Chai Field Day and Joking around with the HP EBC coffee machine
Other great posts
- I’ve been a proponent of the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive. But not everyone is happy: Users frustrated with Seagate’s next-gen hybrid drive
- I talked to Sonia Lelli about SAN management in virtual environments. Wanted: SAN management tools for a virtualized environment
- A great Steve Duplessie piece: Why is Everyone so Fired Up About Big Data?
- Greg Ferro is right on (as usual): Your Cloud Future Is In China
- Great news for Greg Knieriemen, Marc Farley, and company: Infosmack Podcast to be distributed by The Register
- I was glad to have Matthew Norwood’s help with this: Wrapping My Head Around The Nexus1000v — Part 1

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