On October 11, 2011, at Dell World, Dell announced a component to their DX6000G object based storage called an “SCN” or Storage Compression Node. It is interesting that Dell would mention in their blog post that this is “Dell’s first Ocarina based solution…” What makes this interesting is the value proposition behind Ocarina was its ‘content aware’ deduplication, not necessarily compression. That said, this blog post seems to be the ONLY information on Dell’s… Read more »
Storage Efficiency Panel - SNW 2011 Fall
Yesterday I was on a panel at SNW in Orlando Florida. The panel was hosted by Dave Vellente, Founder of Wikibon and always a great host for these kinds of things. On the panel was Larry Freeman of NetApp, Craig Nunes of HP (formally 3Par), Jarred Floyed CTO / Founder at Permabit and myself, IBM (formally Storwize).
Some interesting data came out of this panel. There were probably over 150 people in the audience. It… Read more »
Marketing Gone Awry
Okay, so not many times will you see a blog post from me admitting that, perhaps the marketing and messaging aspect of what I set out to do, probably could have been better thought out.
What am I saying? Well, after the Storwize acquisition into IBM, and IBM so graciously took the “Storwize” name and put it on another product, we needed to come up with… Read more »
Mourning a Loss
I am not sure that there is anything anyone can say about Steve Jobs that hasn't or wont be said. I am sure that there will be hundreds of stories done on Steve from the type of person he was to how he was able to transform a business. I got to met Steve one time. It was an interesting meeting. Steve and Apple had "their way" and right or wrong, "they" added quite a… Read more »
The Storage Alchemist in Lubianijana, Slovenia and Umag, Croatia
Okay, so I rounded out my trip after leaving Prague to Slovenia and Croatia. In both locations there was an IBM Storage Forum conference. In Slovenia, IBM has just moved into a new building this year called Crystal Palace. It was very beautiful. The highlights of the Form were Cloud, Big Data and Real-time Compression. At the IBM Slovenia Form I discussed Real-time Compression. There were approximately 80 customers and partners at the conference. They… Read more »