NetApp - Exposed

The Significance of Obama's Victory to the Storage Industry

Having just finished watching his inspirational yet humble victory speech, it's clear to me Nov 4th, 2008 will go down in history as a transformational date not only for the United States, but for the world as a whole.

While this seemingly endless US presidential campaign stretched the patience and passion of most Americans, I had the luxury of observing it as a neutral 3rd party from both a personal as well as professional perspective.

Sunrise, Sunset

Andy Bechtolsheim is an industry legend, so it's no wonder we're seeing a tug-o-war emerging between Sun and Arista regarding where he will be spending his time.

The Recession of 2008 - Summarized in 8 Short Minutes

Like a slow motion train wreck, I can't stop watching CNBC lately in order to witness what I hope is (only this once) in-a-lifetime worldwide stock market crash.  The implications for the storage economy are vast, but before I pontificate on the topic in more detail later this week, I encourage a quick read of Dave's and Marc's respective takes.

Candor is a NetApp hallmark and I am proud of how our executives are resisting the shallow and superficial tendency of some competitors to feign indifference to the burning of Rome around them.

Unified Storage Deserves Unified Security

Data breaches continue to plague organizations around the world.  The bewildering array of storage security options available to the marketplace is part of the problem, not the solution.  Islands of storage beget fragmented data security, due to inconsistent policies, implementations and enforcement.  NetApp recognized this dilemma many years ago, motivating our DECRU acquisition.  This week we announced the latest milestone in our Unified Storage Security strategy.

Has Storage Swift-Blogging Finally Jumped the Shark?

Apologies to my readers outside of the US or Canada, as this title employs American political and pop culture slang which may not be familiar.

It's not even over yet, but to say this has been an exceptional month in the storage blogosphere would be an understatement.  I witnessed something I frankly never expected to see in the hotly competitive enterprise storage marketing landscape.  The end of unchallenged blogging belligerence.

Blogruptcy

Blog Bankruptcy or "Blogruptcy" comes about with the convergence of 3 underlying factors.  "Comment Bankruptcy", "Logical Bankruptcy" and finally "Ethical Bankruptcy".  I don't do this lightly, but this past week I've witnessed events which lead me to declare one particular blog completely bankrupt.

NetApp's Prestige

On Monday of this week we reviewed EMC's botched attempt at a multi-vendor storage efficiency comparison and yesterday we debunked some lingering misconceptions around provisioning capacity for LUN's on a NetApp SAN.

It was probably not Chuck's intention, but he's actually helped bring incremental attention to NetApp's industry-leading storage efficiency via some interesting disclosures by EMC and Industry Experts along the way.

Time to get back to the movie analogies and wrap-up what we've learned as a result of it all

Tales from the crypt - Sizing and Provisioning a NetApp SAN

Yesterday I promised to conclude my analysis of EMC's (botched) Storage Capacity Utilization Magic Trick with the NetApp Prestige.  Allow me to maintain the suspense a little longer while I indulge a bit more in the Turn, courtesy of some illustrative screenshots.

Some would have you believe configuring 99.99% LUN reservations on a NetApp SAN would result in storage admin's being immediately covered by the umbrella of a mushroom cloud explosion ...