I never skip a chance to travel to Europe, and I'm really looking forward to my trip to Storage Networking World (SNW) in Frankfurt tomorrow. As always, the great folks over there are organizing a Storagebeers event, and it will be wonderful to see all my European friends once again. First thing Thursday morning I'll be on a train to Amsterdam and Storage Expo NL. Storage … [Read more...] about European Trip: SNW Europe, Storage Expo NL, and Storagebeers
Storage Expo NL
VMware as Oedipus: How Server Virtualization will Change Storage Forever
Later this week, I'll be presenting a session at Storage Expo NL which I imagine will be quite controversial: "VMware as Oedipus: How Server Virtualization will Change Storage Forever". That's right, I'm suggesting that VMware is the biggest threat to traditional enterprise storage, and that the company might just bump off its own parent (EMC) in the process. What the heck am I … [Read more...] about VMware as Oedipus: How Server Virtualization will Change Storage Forever
Extreme Tiered Storage: Flash, Disk, and Cloud
My presence at Storage Expo NL may have been cursed, but my presentation went off without a hitch thanks to the creativity and flexibility of the VNU staff and Expo volunteers like Ilja Coolen. In my session, I talked about the shortcomings of traditional tiered storage as a way to advance the Noble Goals of Storage Management and proposed a solution: Although merely using … [Read more...] about Extreme Tiered Storage: Flash, Disk, and Cloud