As most of you have seen by now, IBM has entered into an agreement to acquire Storwize. Being an 'insider' I obviously can't disclose anything about the transaction or the roadmap of the technology inside IBM but what I can tell you is that the Storwize technology will be transforming the data storage industry.
In a webex performed by Storwize and IBM a few months ago, John Power discussed how the trend in the disk… Read more »
Ever had this situation. You know you know the right thing to do but convincing the non-techie that you need to move forward on a project tough. Try some of these techniques!
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I am not sure how many of you have seen the ABC show 'V' but it looks like they have it looks like they have two things in common with Storwize.
First, if you are unfamiliar with the show V - the description from their website is as follows:
The Visitors spread their message quickly and clearly: They come in peace, bearing gifts of medical miracles and technological breakthroughs far beyond our wildest imaginations.
Very… Read more »
During the past three to four months the storage industry has seen a spike in the number of reports, white papers and news articles surrounding the evolution of primary storage technology, capacity optimization (it is 2010’s hottest technology). The reason this technology is getting a lot of ‘air play’ these days is due to the fact that this technology is so critical to help control the growth and costs of storage. In 2010 the… Read more »
Rather than leave a lengthy comment on Tom Cook’s blog post from Friday Compression and Dedupe: Business Value and Data Safety (and from a marketing perspective, Friday’s are bad days to post blogs – especially in the summer) – I thought I would respond here (this may get lengthy as Tom made a number of points which I need comment on).
The first thing I do want to say is that when doing technical… Read more »