Breathing Data

EMC’s Unified Storage and Tiering blogpost @ GestaltIT.com:

Over the last week or two Devang Panchigar (@storagenerve) and I have been collaborating on a post at GestaltIT.com regarding EMC’s storage strategy.  If you have read it already, great but if you haven’t yet there are a couple of things to remember while reading.  First, Devang and I do not have any insight into EMC beyond their public statements and ideas our peers have discussed.  Second, we’re not endorsing their potential strategy over anyone elses but merely stating that it is a step in the right direction.

Hopefully over the next couple of months we’ll continue the posts about other vendors and next-gen storage infrastructure which should serve to enlighten people on where companies appear to be going.

So again if you haven’t read our post, take a look and give us some feedback.

Oracle & VMware and Dell/Perot:

This week I was invited yet again to participate in the StorageMonkeys Infosmack Podcast #21 by the gracious Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley.  Steve Kenniston, Storage Technologist at EMC and blogger at BackupAndBeyond.com, was also a guest on the show.  I always enjoy talking with Steve because of his experience in the industry and how knowledgeable he is from multiple perspectives.  As always, Greg and Marc do a great job of getting good discussion going.  We discussed the Oracle and VMware spat going on as well as the Dell/Perot acquisition.  If you haven’t had a chance to go listen, go do so now!  Oracle seems insistent on locking people in and Dell is going after the services business with Perot.

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