Whether you were at the show or missed it, most of the presentations from Storage Decisions in Chicago are now available for download. These can be a great resource for internal communication and strategy – share the insights from the show to help make a case for change! Most of the sessions were worthwhile, but […]
storage virtualization
Justifying Email Archiving
Now that my TechTarget Virtual Seminar on email archiving is finished, I wanted to share the questions and answers from the session here. You will eventually be able to catch a recorded version of the presentation on TechTarget’s searchexchange.com site, and I’ll post when it’s out. Interestingly, most questions revolved around justifying the purchase of […]
Chicago in May? Perfect for Storage Virtualization and Email Archiving Talks!
Ever been to the TechTarget Storage Decisions conference? It’s my favorite trade show, since it’s totally focused on end users – instead of being a product showcase, Storage Decisions is all about what real people need to do with their enterprise storage infrastructure. Sure, there’s lots of technical product talk, but none of the speakers […]
Which Storage Protocol For VMware?
One of the hits from my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar this week was a discussion of the relative merits of different storage protocols. Sounds deadly, but this can be quite a religious issue for folks, and it generated lively debate. I’m firmly in the “do what works” camp – there is no always-right protocol, and […]
ZFS: Super File System!
ZFS really piques my interest, so I just had to include it in my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar series. Here’s a quick primer for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, and thus are wondering why anyone would get stoked over a filesystem! ZFS (originally “zettabyte file system” but now just ZFS) takes the […]