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Generation 3 drobo: Fall In Love All Over Again

April 9, 2015 By Stephen 11 Comments

I fell for the drobo the moment I heard about it, but the bloom fell from that rose after a few years. The old drobo was simply too slow for modern computers and big files. But the new third-generation drobo is enough to make you fall in love all over again: It's a simple and relatively affordable upgrade that really delivers the goods! Why drobo? You'd think that someone … [Read more...] about Generation 3 drobo: Fall In Love All Over Again

Cloud Services Don’t Buy Boxes, But Service Providers Might

March 23, 2015 By Stephen Leave a Comment

IT is changing, with new avenues for sales from cloud service providers and devops rising just as traditional datacenters are declining. But I'm always puzzled when a company tells me they're selling their boxes into the cloud services market. If there's a trend for cloud service infrastructure, it's using commodity hardware, not proprietary appliances. These vendors had better … [Read more...] about Cloud Services Don’t Buy Boxes, But Service Providers Might

Predictable Performance Beats Maximum Speed Any Day

February 18, 2015 By Stephen 1 Comment

Everyone wants to be the best, so outrageous claims of supremacy are as old as time. In IT, these claims often revolve around synthetic benchmarks chosen to highlight a system's performance. Buyers have grown wary of these claims, smartly asking to try before they buy. But predictability is even more important than real-world testing, and this is particularly difficult for … [Read more...] about Predictable Performance Beats Maximum Speed Any Day

Why SanDisk + Fusion-io = Awesome

June 17, 2014 By Stephen Leave a Comment

The storage industry was abuzz yesterday with news that SanDisk will buy Fusion-io for $1.1 billion. Lots of folks seem confused by this, but I think that's because they don't know who SanDisk really are. After having been exposed to both companies' management, products, and strategy, I think this is a great fit and excellent news for the storage industry. SanDisk Is More … [Read more...] about Why SanDisk + Fusion-io = Awesome

Software-Defined Data Center Symposium, April 22 in Santa Clara, CA

March 21, 2014 By Stephen 1 Comment

I've written and spoken quite a bit on the "software-defined" future, what it means and how it will come about. Although it seems like a marketing buzzword to some, I feel it is a fairly accurate description of the future of the enterprise and service provider data center. That's why I'm working to organize the next Software-Defined Data Center Symposium, and am happy to … [Read more...] about Software-Defined Data Center Symposium, April 22 in Santa Clara, CA

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