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Storage Array Vendors: Consolidation Time?
I could have titled the article as “All Quiet on the Storage Vendor Front.” It has indeed been very quiet the past few months. The main reason according to me is that lot of consolidation happening on the products front. … Continue reading
Dealing with enormous data
I wasn’t aware of the company called ‘Greenplum’ until EMC bought it!! I became interested in it when analysts were mentioning that ‘Netezza’ would be bought by IBM to counter this movie. I was interested because I had a friend … Continue reading
Talk to me intelligently
A short review of the book ‘Write Great Code Vol1: Understanding the Machine’. Continue reading
Recent interesting acquisitions in Storage Space
When there is great growth in an industry, you would expect the demand would to spur competition and we would expect the customer to have more choices and more vendors to procure from. I guess this works only upto a … Continue reading
Storage Books: An Indian Perspective
One question I regularly get asked by my students after I do my Storage 101 sessions is regarding the books they should be reading up to get more details about Storage Technologies. I thought it will be a good idea … Continue reading
Why ‘Inception’ is a no-brainer for Storage folks
If you haven’t heard about Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’, you must be living in your own dream land. This was probably the most hyped up movie after ‘Avatar’ and definitely much more discussed than ‘Avatar’. Just in case you are one … Continue reading
Virtualization: Lessons Learnt
If you were thinking I am going to give you some great tips about virtualization, let me make it clear that the title of this post must be taken literally and not figuratively. I attended a VMWare 4 day course … Continue reading
The shape of the cloud : Public or Private
“ That wall has to be bigger if we have to use this pattern”, said my painter, “it will not be very effective on your wall”. This is something which happens to many of us all the time. With our painters, … Continue reading
The Nagging Bug Fix
Nothing makes you feel that you have conquered the whole world than when you solve a problem. When you finally understand what has gone wrong, provide a fix and it works like a dream, you are in seventh heaven (wherever … Continue reading
Setting up Sun Unified Storage 7000 Simulator
Nothing to stimulate you like a simulator!! I know it sounds corny but what the heck. The Sun Unified Storage simulator did stimulate my interest and I found the going good. So here is my story of how to setup … Continue reading