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A Seat At the Table

August 16, 2007 By Stephen Leave a Comment

One of Mr. Toigo's readers posted a thoughtful question about why IT isn't more strategic in their thinking. I started writing this as a comment there, but it got longer and longer and I liked it more and more, so I put it here instead! I think this lack of strategic thinking is a reaction to the reality of life in IT rather than any deficiency on the part of IT folks. … [Read more...] about A Seat At the Table

SRM For VMware (Thank God!)

August 1, 2007 By Stephen 2 Comments

So Symantec's CommandCentral version 5.0 includes VMware-integrated SRM.  Thank god!  Has anyone out there been banging their head against the wall trying to figure out what's taking up all their unstructured filesystem space?  Well trying to get that information in a world of VMware virtual servers is like drilling through your forehead with an auger.  Well, maybe not that … [Read more...] about SRM For VMware (Thank God!)

Information, Data, and Storage

July 31, 2007 By Stephen Leave a Comment

My mom had a laugh way back then, when I got my first job in this industry: " I always knew you'd wanted to be an architect," she said, "but why does it have to be closets and garages?" That was me, Storage Architect at last! These days, when another parent at the soccer game or church asks what I do for a living, I go through a little semantic dance.  I start with business … [Read more...] about Information, Data, and Storage

There Are Two Kinds…

July 30, 2007 By Stephen Leave a Comment

"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world, and those who don't."  This week, EMC's Chief Development Officer, Mark Lewis, posted a thoughtful blog "episode" supposing that there are two kinds of data in this world: OLTP and all of the rest.  It's an interesting idea, so let's bat it around a little. Mark … [Read more...] about There Are Two Kinds…

Sailing the Titanic (Why We Need ILM and Then Some!)

July 24, 2007 By Stephen 2 Comments

Without getting into the debate on blogketing (I'll save that for another post), I was pretty impressed by Chuck Hollis' recent post on ILM. I think he's made a good discussion of the wherefores of ILM, and maybe counteracted a bit of the prevailing anti-ILM argument. I've been in the trenches on storage content (aka data) for a long time. I, too, have often reverted to the … [Read more...] about Sailing the Titanic (Why We Need ILM and Then Some!)

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