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History of the Marathon: Ancient and Modern
Reading Time: 3 minutesHISTORY OF THE MARATHON Today marks the 130th running of the prestigious Boston Marathon, one of the six World Marathon Majors. It begins at the start line in Hopkinton, MA, at 10:00 AM, then follows the course into Boston. This is the oldest and longest-running (no pun intended) annual marathon event, at least in the…
Read MoreVMworld 2011: Day 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMWORLD 2011: Day 1 Three days of breakouts, super sessions, keynotes, meetups, tweet-ups, solution exposition, and parties. A victim of its own success I’ve been attending VMworld since 2004, when they were acquired by EMC. Now, VMworld has grown to have almost 20,000 attendees, 6,700 of which are Partners. It has outgrown a single venue…
Read MoreInformation Reformation
Reading Time: 3 minutesI wrote the following article over a dozen years ago when I was a technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Back in the mid-’90s, we were experiencing the early part of the first wave of "The Web." Today, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies we’re seeing an explosion in different dimensions. Wikis, social networking, mass…
Read MoreCloud OS: VMware vSphere 4 Launches
Reading Time: 2 minutesCLOUD OS: VSPHERE 4 LAUNCHES This week, VMware upgraded its main product line VMware Infrastructure 3, to deliver IT infrastructure as a service internally. SaaS, or “Software as a Service” is a term often seen in discussions of Cloud Computing, where these services are offered remotely from data centers over the Web. With vSphere, companies…
Read MoreCloud Optimized Storage: Atmos
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 1969 during the original Star Trek TV show, The Cloud Minders episode featured Stratos, a city in the clouds. Today, EMC launches Atmos, cloud optimized storage. This is not science fiction, but the realization of much work on managing very large amounts of data “in the cloud.” Having been in the hands of customers…
Read MoreCLARiiON co-stars in Body of Lies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week I saw the new Ridley Scott spy thriller Body of Lies. Scott has made a number of movies in recent years starring Academy Award winner Russell Crowe, including Gladiator, A Good Year, and American Gangster. In this film Crowe co-stars with Leonardo DiCaprio, and additional co-stars who are even more flashy. EMC loaned…
Read MoreInformation Growing Exponentially
Reading Time: 2 minutesInformation Growing Exponentially Why Info Exponential? Because information is growing faster right now than it ever has in history. Much of it is coming from so-called “end users” like you and me. IDC estimates 70% will come from individual creation by 2010. Personally, I create a data wake, or digital footprint of about 10 gigabytes…
Read MoreEagle Eye on EMC DMX
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis weekend, I saw producer Steven Spielberg’s latest #1 blockbuster Eagle Eye. In a particularly exciting scene, the cameras flashed to the front of a some impressive looking information processing equipment. When they needed equipment to represent the super-computer named ARIA, they used EMC’s DMX arrays. The “Direct Matrix” Symmetrix storage systems are indeed the…
Read MoreB2D and TiVo
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile giving a talk to a group of sales reps in New York, we were discussing the concepts of Backup to Disk (B2D) and Virtual Tape Libraries (EMC Disk Library). Some of these folks were quite experienced as sales reps, but didn’t quite understand the value proposition of the Disk Library. At one point, the…
Read MoreVMworld 2008: Day 2 Review – Virtually Anything is Possible
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMWORLD 2008: DAY 2 REVIEW – VIRTUALLY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE VMworld is not just a trade show about virtualization, it uses virtual technologies and Web 2.0 technologies in a way I’ve never seen before. Here’s an example: Blogging: Not only is blogging encouraged, but it is honored. There is a special set of tables in…
Read MoreVMworld 2008: a Veritable Verdant Venture (Green)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMWORLD 2008: A VERITABLE VERDANT VENTURE “Green, that’s what it’s all about,” Larry says as he shows me the eco bag that TIG is handing out at the VMworld 2008 show. Many of the booths say “Green IT” right on their signs. Virtualization can contribute to Energy Efficient IT in a number of ways, not…
Read MoreVMworld 2008: Day 1 Keynote
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMWORLD 2008: DAY 1 KEYNOTE Following yesterday’s opening event, both the Technology Exchange and Partner Day, the conference started in earnest today with a keynote by Paul Maritz, VMware President and CEO. Paul is quite an articulate speaker, sounding both like a savvy businessman and an erudite professor. For many, his accent is difficult to…
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