A place for my thoughts…
Schopenhauer was right, truth really does pass through three phases: First it is ridiculed. Second it is fiercely and violently opposed. Third, it becomes self-evident. One of the many great things about working in the IT industry, especially in storage is that we’re constantly having to evolve our technology to deal with data that’s growing faster than the capacity of[…]
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There are many very significant features that we’ve built into Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT), these enable a fundamental change in the way companies build their storage infrastructures, but I’ve been trying to find my own way to describe just how significant it is. What does Seamless Scalability, Proven Efficiency and most importantly Non Disruptive Operations (NDO), which I feel is[…]
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I had a meeting a month or so back with an IT Director for one of the large banks in London, he’s always been a big fan of NetApp technology but is also very pragmatic about looking at all options when deciding on an Infrastructure. As with most companies I meet they are heavily invested into virtualisation, in this case[…]
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Thanks for all the votes and comments, it’s obvious that some of you have strong opinions on this, so I should explain that I deliberately worded the question in the way that I did because I wanted to provoke a reaction. Here’s how the voting went… 87% of you think that Data is the new Utility 13% of you don’t[…]
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I had a conversation with a Professor from Cambridge University during a flight back to the UK a while ago, he was a specialist in the energy sector and following our chat it really got me thinking about the similarities between the traditional utilities that we use and Data. Oh yeah and before anyone picks up on it, there are[…]
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No video this time! I felt this one would be easier to write down, be warned it is a long one, you may want to get that cup of coffee first! Over the last 5 or so years I’ve worked at NetApp there’s been a constant theme to my presentations, they all focus on the value that ONTAP delivers upwards,[…]
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I always enjoy the end of a year and the beginning of a new one, it’s one of the few opportunities where I get to take a little time to get all of the ‘stuff’ that’s in my head and try to assemble it into something that maybe people might find useful. In the first few weeks of this year[…]
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IT is in a constant state of evolution, new technologies emerge, new applications are born, new capabilities are required by the business and increasingly users have options, more than they’ve ever had before. For me the ‘Dropbox’ phenomenon was a significant catalyst for major change, something so simple, file sharing, that was it, no more and no less, yet IT[…]
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I consider myself a lucky guy, I love to travel and I love to talk and I get to do both in my day job. This means I get to meet a lot of customers in a lot of countries around the world, I’m always briefed by the account teams but I’ve found that the best way for me to[…]
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I’ve had the privilege to deliver one of the Keynote talks at NetApp’s Insight event in EMEA for several years now, this year I was delighted to be asked to speak at the US event in Las Vegas too. I attended one of the first of these events when it was run back in 2003, I worked for a NetApp[…]
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