Yes I know: I should have never stopped blogging (some might say that it was goodness I did). To paraphrase my blogging colleague Claus, it was a blogcation. “In reality”, Santa snatched the keys of my blog last Xmas, and it took me several months to get them back… but I could not wait for […]

The month of October has had a weird recurring pattern of events at least in the last few years. It usually starts relatively slowly; well for sure it’s slower than the mad September month full of interesting but schedule intensive conferences and business meetings. Then, towards the middle of the month […]

SNW-Europe took place earlier this month in Frankfurt and I am pleased to say that it was another very successful storage industry event, well attended by European IT professionals. Its success was mostly due to a conference agenda that allowed the many data storage industry constituencies, from vendors to users, to get an update on […]

Here is a set of buzz-words and acronym that have been over-hyped and often used out-of-context by IT industry “wonderfullists”. So using them together may look like an odd move. However, there seem to be some emerging and interesting convergence points (say synergy if you want) between these domains or at least some complementariness. Here’s […]

Outstanding!
That’s the 1st word that comes to mind when thinking about the week before last at SNW in San Diego.
Besides the visible HDS leadership, the whole event really gave an impression of huge business enthusiasm and momentum from both end-users and ITC sides. Of course IT budgets are still under scrutiny, storage budgets especially, but […]

San Diego’s anchormen will hopefully notice that one of the top IT conferences is taking place at the Manchester Grand Hyatt of their city next week. 

For the storage IT community, Storage Networking World  has become a key biannual event in the US, and at least once a year in other parts of the world such […]