Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 A couple of years ago I did this post about if Is FCoE Struggling to Gain Traction, or on a normal adoption course?
Fast forward to today, has anybody else noticed that there seems to be less hype and fud on Fibre Channel (FC) over Ethernet (FCoE) than a year ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013 Yesterday VCE and their proud parents announced revenues had reached an annual run rate of a billion dollars. Today VCE announced some new products along with enhancements to others.
Before going forward though, lets take go back for a moment to help set the stage to ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2013 My copy of the new book The Human Face of Big Data created by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt arrived yesterday compliments of EMC (the lead sponsor). In addition to EMC, the other sponsors of the book are Cisco, VMware, FedEx, Originate and Tableau software.
To say this is a ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 In case you missed it, VMware recently announced spending $1.05 billion USD acquiring startup Nicira for their virtualization and software technology that enables software defined networks (SDN). Also last week Oracle was in the news getting its hands slapped by for making misleading advertisement performance claims vs. IBM.
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the fourth in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what does this mean for IBM Business Partners (BPs) and ISVs?
What could very well differentiate IBM PureSystems from those of other competitors ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the fifth in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here.
So what about vendor or technology lock in?
So who is responsible for vendor or technology lock in? When I was working in IT organizations, (e.g. ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the third in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what about the IBM Virtual Appliance Factory?
Where PureFlex and PureApplication (PureSystems) are the platforms or vehicles for enabling your journey to efficient and effective ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the second in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what are the speeds and feeds of a PureFlex system?
The components that make up the PureFlex line include:
IBM management ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the first in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the next post here.
For a certain generation of IBM faithful or followers the recently announced PureFlex and PureApplication systems might give a sense of DejaVu perhaps even causing some to ...
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011 Congratulations to the Infosmack crew hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley with the Diva of Disruptive Technologies, Christina Weil on their 100th episode. This episode included Robin Harris of StorageMojo and myself as guests.
Some items discussed in the 100th episode include Infosmack Live from the upcoming Dell Storage Forum, ...
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011 Some IT industry buzz this week is around continued speculation (or here) of who will Dell buy next and will it be Brocade.
Brocade was mentioned as a possible acquisition by some in the IT industry last fall after Dell stepped back from the 3PAR bidding war with HP. Industry rumors ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011 Here is an article by Drew Robb over at Enterprise Storage Forum about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and its state of adoption. Drews article includes comments and perspectives from myself around where FCoE is going and why it is on a long road and not a sprint for a ...
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011 What records will EMC break in NYC January 18, 2011?
In case you have not seen or heard, EMC is doing an event next week in New York City (NYC) at the AXA Equitable Center winter weather snow storm clouds permitting (and adequate tools or technologies to deal with the snow ...
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010 A few months ago IBM bought a Data Footprint Reduction (DFR) technology company called Storwize (read more about DFR and Storwize Real time Compression here, here, here, here and here).
A couple of weeks ago IBM renamed the Storwize real time compression technology to surprise surprise, ...
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