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 […]

With Grid only just entering the Enterprise space and still plenty of developments required including for industry standards, the forward-looking experts of the IT industry are attempting to define the logical next step beyond Grid and use models such as Utility Computing. With the holidays’ period approaching, I could not […]

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 […]

After a short break, I was privileged last week to support a worldwide delegation of SNIA leaders in Singapore and Bangalore. I had not been to these cities for a long time, too long I guess. This SNIA tour was a great opportunity to meet with CIO’s, Officials, Storage Professionals and representatives of the local […]

I have heard and read some “interesting” comments regarding the recent announcement by 5 SNIA members companies (EMC, HP, Sun, Symantec and Hitachi Data Systems) about the SMI-S Advanced Services. Many of these comments were highly speculative and not often reflecting the approach the 5 vendors decided to take. This announcement got nick-named “Anti-Aperi” or […]

Anybody visiting Beijing these days
would realize that major restructuring efforts are underway in PRC. Last week at SNW-China conference in the Kerry Centre of Beijing, I had the opportunity to witness and discuss the interest of Chinese IT professionals in Data Storage solutions.

With a fast growing economy in public and private sectors (e.g. Telecoms, Energy…) […]

Well…that is a question I have decided to start answering by at least trying it out… One of the reasons my colleagues suggested I start blogging is my international IT Industry background.
Let’s face it - The storage business landscape is predominantly shaped by US Corporations… but Storage users outside the US represent very large business […]