13 March 2010
Saturday
I was watching "2012" last night. As buildings crumbled it dawned on me that all the world's information - including what I am writing now - is stored on technology that is over 20 years old. RAID! And nothing has changed much. Why?
According to a Wall Street Journal story, Google received U.S. government approval to buy and sell power like a utility company. Given that power is what drives data centers worldwide, is this a prelude to companies buying their energy requirements from Google?
When Oracle announced the Exadata 1 over a year ago, it drew little interest from media. But following the acquisition of Sun by Oracle and the launched of Exadata 2, now the numbers are starting to look interesting. So much so that IBM launched a new solution aimed squarely at Oracle's Exadata.
When Larry Ellison and company announced their storage strategy on Jan 27, it started to become clear that not everyone in the former Sun storage product portfolio will survive. To be sure, nothing is set in stone as yet but if you read Oracle's storage roadmap, you can see the cracks forming right under the OEM suppliers of Sun storage.
The Sun Microsystems implosion into Oracle is finally getting the push it needs. EU regulators have given their nod to the deal so Oracle head honchos will be meeting in days to iron out the new battle plan. It would be interesting to see what remains and what goes. Here are my few thoughts plus excerpt from the former heads at Sun.
A friend of mine reminded me a couple of times to read an article by Steve Duplessie, founder of ESG, on the merits of ZL Technologies lawsuit against Gartner and its famed Magic Quadrant. Shaking off the new year holiday, I decided to ink my thoughts here.
IDC predicts that 2010 will see more consolidation via M&A with IBM buying Juniper Networks. This will further add fuel to the long running rumors of Cisco buying EMC. Is there anything new in all this?
Just months after acquiring Data Domain in a lively tug-of-war with NetApp, EMC has dumped long-time OEM partner Quantum in favor of its newly bought technology.
Need a portable data center? Jimmy Pike, self-confessed Chief Geek and director of systems architecture for Dell's enterprise solutions group proved that it can be done with a little of patience and ingenuity.
Brocade is rumored to be looking for a buyer. Yes, its not Brocade being serenaded by another vendor. Its Brocade quietly putting out its feelers for a potential buyer. What will this mean to the thousands of Brocade customers out there in Asia? For sure, Cisco sales people are having a field day!
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Backup and archiving have changed over recent years partly riding on advances in technology. When do you perform backup and when to archive? What are the technical and operational considerations that need to be looked into for each. This paper looks at Simpana Software as a platform for achieving both.
This paper looks at Simpana as a platform for seamlessly extending local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from our integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance.
The move to cloud computing is not easy, and its important to get it right the first time. Curtin University of Technology with the help of Optus Business, Alphawest, Cisco, EMC, and VMware, takes the first steps that will provide Curtin with an on-demand access to a fully virtualized private data center.
Asian sports associations looking to improve performance (winning gold medals) can take a leaf off the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA)'s book, when it comes to blending the best in both athletic and IT infrastructure.
