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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
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
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
Walk when you talk. Learn while you teach.
“Walk when you talk” is the new Idea ad which is famous nowadays. Given that I will probably never have a marketing division which will coin a cool phrase for me, let me do it myself. So what I do … Continue reading
Time to Invest. Time to help.
If you are thinking that I am talking about investing in stock market, forget it. I have never been an expert in that area. What I am suggesting now is to invest in yourself. There cannot be a better time. … Continue reading
Silicon bites the dust
When a certain product helps you meet the future Prime Minister of a country, it is not surprising that you remember the product fondly. That is why I turned a bit nostalgic when I read that Silicon Graphics’s assets have … Continue reading
Radhakrishna Bairy – A small tribute
New Year dawned on a sad and tragic note with the passing away of a friend, former colleague and a great human being, Radhakrishna Bairy. It was shocking to all of us that Bairy, as he was fondly known, went … Continue reading
Cloud(ed) Management
It is usual that whenever newer technologies, techniques or paradigms emerge, there is a certain amount of confusion. On one hand these are generally held as a panacea for all ills that plague us. On the other hand, it is … Continue reading