As part of my job, I try to find ways to communicate the benefits and challenges of technology and business models, so I am always on the lookout for more effective ways to do this.

In times of economic down turns, many companies are cutting discretionary spending such as travel to events like Storage Networking World. If you are an IT person considering an acquisition of storage networking systems, you might want to consider the value that can come out of attending an event like SNW.

SNW is coming fast and we will have a lot of activity there. I hope to see you in Orlando at booth 201.

Dave Roberson our CEO hosted a wine tasting event in San Francisco last night for the new “web 2.0” companies in our area. We were interested in meeting the people behind the Web pages, to understand their business models and their storage requirements.

While I was out of the country for the past two weeks a revolutionary phenomenon occurred on US television. It was the finale of the American Idol TV program. For those who have not heard about this program, it is the most popular reality show in the US. Auditions are held through out the country [...]

I have been travelling through Central and Eastern Europe. I had the opportunity to speak at the IDC Storage Roadshow in Zagreb. There were well over 200 people in attendance, which shows the growing importance of storage in the emerging econommies of CEE. I was hosted by Ante Baric, Boris Maravic, and Kresimir Bradic, of [...]

Last week I was invited to participate in the HDS South East Asia, Out Loud Storage Conference. I was especially excited to do this since it was in Ho Chi Minh City, which I last saw 40 years ago as Saigon, under extremely different circumstances. Out Loud is a conference which is designed to create [...]

I recently attended an interesting CIO Panel at the Churchill Club in San Francisco. It was a Blue Ribbon panel with CIOs from Bechtel Group - Thor Geir Ramleth, Intel - John Johnson, McKesson - Randall Spratt, and Yahoo - Lars Rabbe. The Moderator was Dave Margulius and the title of the panel was Building [...]

I came across a post on the RupturedMonkey blog, which is documenting a customer’s experience in installing our USP with virtualization and migration of a CX600 to an AMS200, using Tiered Storage Manager. He has also employed Logical Partitioning for mainframe and open systems use.

The 2006 Winter Olympics is over and the next one will be in Vancouver in 2010. Some of the athletes who competed this year will return, but very few will be able to compete in a third Olympic. One of the most famous skiers in the world is Rosi Mittermeier of Germany who competed in [...]