Even tho the Oscars are over, it's a Hollywood-themed night here at Exposed. For example, I just saw the opening midnight screening of a NetApp Data ONTAP GX customer's impressive handiwork on IMAX no less! It's a fearless and ambitious adaptation of the Superhero movie genre. Although it could have and should have left 40 minutes on the cutting room floor, it's still a masterpiece IMO!
... Rather, it's always the attempted cover-up. I asked a clear question on my blog yesterday about why a mainstream IT article covering Centera went from white in the morning to black by the same afternoon?
EMC responded with a lot of huffing and puffing, even a technical diatribe. But apart from not even addressing the technology behind a simple MD5 hack to intentionally make data disappear forever on earlier generations of Centera, they avoided the elephant in the room altogether.
Why did they try (and fail) to cover it all up?
Based on EMC's track record to date, expecting a straight answer on this critical question is about as likely as EMC being voted the best place to work for in the US by Fortune Magazine.
Amping up the exposure on this whole topic has been my aim from the beginning. I never expected the other side to help out quite this much, but I am satisfied my goal has been accomplished. Barring any unforeseen events, I'm going to retire this topic on my end for now.
Bercovici ... OUT! :)
Continuing with my Obama theme for a bit, the beginning of 2009 offers us more political and economic limbo. Yet for the IT infrastructure industry and storage in particular, there are numerous lessons that emerged at the end of 2008 which we can apply as we sit down with our peers to figure out 2009.
Three sources in particular are worth paying attention to as we look for a common theme to emerge.
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.
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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.
This is the obligatory apology post for not publishing in a while. No excuses except to announce that this blog has been foremost enough in my mind that I decided to alter my career path (by joining the NetApp Office of the CTO) in order to be able to spend more time here. Careful what you wish for!
One of my closest high-school buddies is a blog pioneer and early on in his blogging career (almost 3 years ago) posted this very thoughtful observation: The Blog is a Harsh Mistress
While I understood what he was saying at the time, I have only recently begun to actually feel Adam's pain from his early blogging days.
Thankfully, our industry continues to supply a healthy amount of topics both controversial and innovative to comment on, so there is no shortage of material for me to catch up on. Industry trends such as virtualization, deduplication, flash, emerging standards, web 2.0/3.0, clouds/grids/clusters among others will dominate my coverage here. Feel free to comment on which you'd like to see first!
Maybe it's just me, but I've been struck by dozens of parallels between the US Democratic Party nomination battle and the two horse race in the storage industry. Inclusive vs divisive behavior, guilt by association, smear campaigns and cowardly propaganda are elements common between the competitive storage industry and bitterly fought electoral battles. Coincidentally, now that the nomination phase is nearing an end, I believe it's perfect timing to draw those parallels and do some "near live" blogging on the actual electoral battle to come between now and November.
Finally, I'm going to introduce a major new category within the next week or so which will dominate my posts here until the mission is accomplished - and I don't mean "dubya style"! I'm offering a genuine PEI DIRT SHIRT to the first person who can guess what that heading stands for before I "out it" later on next week.
