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Announced today... Dell has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EqualLogic, a leading provider of high-performance iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions uniquely optimized for virtualization. The acquisition will strengthen Dell’s product and channel leadership in simplifying and virtualizing IT for customers globally. iSCSI SAN technology represents the fastest growing part of the storage business. Michael Dell ...
Let me state that my feelings regarding EMC are unchanged. Worst storage product line ever, someone needs to tell the CLARiiON product team that this is the 21st century and get it into gear. What a horrible storage company. Anyway, now that thats out of the way.... The laptop debate has for the last couple years gone like this for me: "If you want a portable workstation, buy an Acer Ferrari. If you want to walk into a room and get on ...
I was planning several blog entries about individual topics with pictures and such but just haven't found the time, so I'll do a bulk update on recent happenings and such.... So I'm back.. The family and I went off on our annual week long camping trip. Being nomadic car campers we spent 2 nights at Campsite 4 in Yosemite, 3 nights at Hume Lake, and a final night in Kings Canyon. It was fun to get away. The kids make it a lot of work, ...
Its hard to believe, but Tamarah and I have been married for 8 years. Add our 5 years of dating and we've been side-by-side every day for more than 13 years. We celebrated by having dinner at CIA in Napa and spending the evening at a nearby bed and breakfast, The Chanric Inn, in Calistoga. This was the first time we've spent a night away from our children together, from time to time we get a baby sitter and go out (very rarely, ...
I was thinking that I really just needed some fresh air, so... More pictures on my Zannel.
I found this "Ask Slashdot" question interesting: Good Ways To Join an Open Source Project? There are several ways to look at this... why is this really a question? why is this still a question? what makes you think its difficult? But, I'll admit, it is a question that a lot of people have. Its kind of like asking: "How do I join a club?" Simple, you just do. But, frankly, if no one is holding a "Prospective Members Sign Up Here!" ...
LTO makes tape sexy. I've been a fan of LTO-3 for some time now, but flipping through "Storage" magazine I just saw an ad for LTO Ultrium 4 tapes... 800GB UNCOMPRESSED! 1.6TB COMPRESSED PER TAPE! And speeds up to 240MB/s! Holy crap! Thats a tape infrastructure I can get behind. ...what the.... boy, I've been out of it! I just wanted to see if ADIC had any LTO-4 libraries yet. They were aquired by Quantum!!! its too bad that ...
I've been meaning to bring up the dreaded benchmark topic for some time. Benchmarking is like some type of taboo... everyone wants to but you get chastised if you talk about it. That, of course, only fuels the desire that much more. But how? What do you use? When do you use what tool? Its really hard to find good information and so here is my attempt to shed some light on things. Before we begin, lets look at the word itself: ...
Here's a dump of various products and companies that I've wanted to plug but due to my audience don't really have places to fit 'em in... Iridesse: Pearls ditch the PTA I wanted to get Tamarah a unique necklace for Mothers Day. I set out to Tiffany's but they close early, so we went cruising around the Valley Fair mall and found Iridesse, a new jewelry company specializing in pearls but with a decidedly 21st century flare. These ain't ...
I came across a great find today on iTunes. I've recently finished re-reading Plato's Republic and was thinking of moving next to rediscover Descartes, when I got one my favorite quotes of all time stuck in my head, James Burke's infamous line "...and that brings us to a guy named Descartes, on whom I blame everything." The point he makes is with regards to reductionism and James goes on to note a friend of his who has a degree in Milton's ...