Macworld 2012: Conference at a crossroads
By day, an Expo getting serious again about refocusing on the user. By night, a bit gritty and underground.
By day, an Expo getting serious again about refocusing on the user. By night, a bit gritty and underground.
Company claims that it can half power and cooling costs in data centres as it announces a raft of products at its Las Vegas conferences
Some future trends in storage are obvious: we'll need more of it, it'll be cheaper per megabyte, and a lot of it will be virtualised.However, despite all that cost reduction activity, the amount enterprises are spending on storage is, somewhat surprisingly, actually on the rise.
I had many questions about Bitcoin (BTC) and how it works. Some of them got answered.
This last fortnight there’s been a cacophony of hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts with regards to Reference Architectures and Converged Infrastructures. As IBM launched PureSystems, NetApp & Cisco decided it was also a good time to reiterate their strong partnership with FlexPod.
There's only one thing better than a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager: a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager that also lets you think about Billie Piper or John Barrowman a lot.
I'm on my way to the Uptime Institute's How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project seminar in Atlanta, GA. I hope to meet some of the attendees as well as members of the Institute's staff.
I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.)Here are my initial impressions of the event:The event is significantly smaller than any I can remember in the past.
The predominant storage-related issue at the METAmorphosis 2001 and 2002 conferences was cost control. However, the tone and conversation at the 2003 conference changed back to the forward-looking networked storage deployment theme that had existed prior
All conferences involve a measure of back-slapping, but Oracle has gone too far this year — it's forgotten that it needs to tell attendees about the future.