As much as I would like, I will not win a gold medal in next years’ Olympics in Beijing. Having been a sprinter in an earlier part of my life, I will have to hand over that glory next year to Tyson Gay, who has been pretty impressive of late in the 100 meters. Not […]

I think we all know the drill. Whenever you’re writing for public consumption (blogs, articles, papers, books, etc.), there’s this little thing called “fact checking” that’s required. True, it can be an annoying process that might cause you to miss a deadline or arrive late at a party, but we’re all obliged to do it. […]

Well, leave it to EMC to get me sufficiently fired up to resume my blogging after a lengthy hiatus. Yes, it’s been too long (some might argue too short), but I’m back. Call it a “blogcation” or a “blogaday”. If either of these terms make entry into Wikipedia I’ll take credit. My absence has been […]

It’s been a great week for storage people here in Silicon Valley. I’ve been in the storage business for decades and we’ve always known that data and storage is the most important element of a datacenter (there is a reason it’s called a DATAcenter). If you lose a server, it ain’t great, but you buy […]

I suppose we all do it. You know, always analyzing the competition and trying to figure out their strategy, direction, strengths and weaknesses. It’s healthy to keep this focus. Recently, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding EMC and their strategy (well, there’s always discussion about the EMC strategy, not just recently).
A lot […]

Someone told me, and I tried it, if you Google “DMX-3 blogs” my blog from a couple of months ago comes up on top. A personal achievement, and you’ll hopefully pardon me for bringing this up, but it leads to another fascination of mine which is how quickly things change around us. For example, the […]

I live in San Francisco. And as anyone even remotely connected is aware, today is the 100th anniversary of “The Big One”, the 1906 Earthquake that essentially destroyed my city. It has also been a very interesting few weeks leading up to this anniversary since local media has been swamping us with historical fact, stories, […]

There are three stages to SNW. Firstly, there is the event itself replete with all the networking (people as well as fibre channel), keynotes, sessions, demos, and late nights. The second stage is reading through all that is written about SNW: who said what, what was announced, and other press releases (“what my CEO really […]

I think I’ve recovered. That is, from a 2-week excursion to Latin America, courtesy of my employer. In those two weeks I enjoyed time in Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Bogota, and Mexico City with a weekend jaunt to Peru and Machu Picchu (you expect me to sit in a hotel room and do e-mail all […]

So I came across this interesting link on how a Canadian company had been using a Disaster Recovery vendor that was unable to execute their contract during the massive East Coast power failure in August of 2003. I won’t put the details in this blog since both the original DR vendor and the newly selected […]