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		<title>Pure&#8230;H.E.double hockey stick&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by Getty Images via Daylife &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Users of NetBackup’s PureDIsk feature set may have gotten over the hump of the pain, but for the majority, they have ignored Symantec’s product because of complexity of software installation, software configuration, and performance configuration/tuning for a specific storage configuration.&#160; &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Why does this matter?&#160; Because today [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=216</link>
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		<title>Snuggle time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by Joe Penniston via Flickr &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Have to give a short shout out to Disney for the recent launch of DisneyDigitalBooks.com&#160; Disney Publishing released an online version of more than 500 books available as a service online.&#160; Each membership looks like it supports up to three children.&#160; The best quote came out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=213</link>
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		<title>VMWare NFS, iSCSI, FC, &amp; FCOE &#8211; The Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Time for an update about storage protocols, I say protocols, because the transport layer is something that is in flux right now.&#160; NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and FCOE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) are storage PROTOCOLS!&#160; It is pretty important to understand this as base knowledge when discussing storage connectivity to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=211</link>
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		<title>Problems of today!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; I am sitting on a plane from Charlotte to NYC, which airport in the NYC area isn’t important, but how I’m getting there and where I’ve come from right now is.&#160; I’m on my 3rd airline in 48 hours, and will end up in my 4th city.&#160; We talk about green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=207</link>
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		<title>The Zoo, stuff legends are made of&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by global oneness project via Flickr There is a story about a sales call that I did that has been passed around enough that I heard it as almost a legend the other day.&#160; I am exaggerating a bit, but I was asked if I knew who the people were in the story.&#160; Well, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=204</link>
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		<title>CML &amp; Lewan &amp; latisys &amp; TheSANTechnologist, oh MY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by wynner3 via Flickr About a week ago I tweeted that I had been invited to a storage vendor’s event, was invited as a potential customer by two different parties.&#160; Funny thing about email lists, people get invited that you wouldn’t expect to attend.&#160; I took off my storage hat, put on my analyst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=203</link>
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		<title>Free Truck Conversion to Batcycle, but rotation and balancing at a charge!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by www.ericcastro.biz via Flickr I while ago I poked fun at the NetApp 50% Guarantee.&#160; The idea that most of the savings come from taking a RAID10 environment and switching it to NetApp’s RAID-DP (btw, they only guarantee 35% if you are using your own storage behind a v-filer platform), is something I’ve touched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=202</link>
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		<title>He who dies with the most toys wins! &#8211; Garfield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Couldn’t make it to VMWorld this year for various reasons, but I have been eagerly listening in to all the chatter, social networking, and general fun being spewed across the internet.&#160; There have been funny cartoons, funny videos, blogs, tweets, Facebook updates, etc.&#160; The updates and news coverage is pretty great, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=199</link>
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		<title>#49 &#8211; Treasure Hunt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; What happens when your storage system is a “klunk”?&#160;&#160; In the start-up/up-start space there are still numerous storage vendors, two recently have moved from that I would consider up-start to Corporations due to acquisitions.&#160; These two companies are what I would NOT consider “klunks” in the Treasure Hunt vernacular.&#160; These two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=198</link>
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		<title>IT geoCACHEing &#8211; Find your cloud data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by themanikone via Flickr While tweeting today, David Graham (http://www.flickerdown.com/) gave me a great idea for a new game.&#160; Use your GPS and the location data from your cloud storage and see how many chunks you can find around the state, country, world!&#160; Anyone who can recreate a single file manually gets a trinket! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=197</link>
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		<title>Game Shows: #50 Three&#8217;s A Crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by ThisIsIt2 via Flickr In Storage, in sales, in life, “Three’s A Crowd”.&#160; In life, that third wheel is annoying when you’re on a date, the thought of a “menage trois” is a lot like the writings of Marx, good in theory and on paper, but we know how it turns out in real-life.&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=196</link>
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		<title>Why does it happen?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by tschaut via Flickr &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; In my career I have worked for a Fortune 50 company, companies with less then 50 employees, private companies that have closed their doors, private companies that have been acquired, and the holy grail of private companies that went public.&#160; What eludes me is how private companies, who are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=195</link>
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		<title>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost &#160; TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, &#160; And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Then took the other, as just as fair, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=193</link>
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		<title>BlueArc gets a marketing boost from NAS Giant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Well in light of a filed and I’m pretty sure expired S-1 at this point BlueArc is still churning through the storage upstart stage, and what better way to gain some extra market share, then to hire a VP from NetApp. &#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=192</link>
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		<title>Cerberus&#8230;who writes the RFP?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia In the past 10 years RFP (Request for Proposal) has been growing in the mid-Enterprise space.&#160; I actually saw an RFP, written by Glasshouse under contract, for a smaller law firm in Illinois.&#160; This RFP was about 80 pages (25 of witch were detailed technical questions on SAN, NAS, and Backup/Recovery).&#160; This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Tic-Tac-Toe&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by tnarik via Flickr Joshua: Shall we play a game? David Lightman: Oh! Jennifer: I think it missed him. David Lightman: Yeah. Weird isn&#8217;t it? Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War. Joshua: Wouldn&#8217;t you prefer a nice game of chess? David Lightman: Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War. Joshua: Fine. &#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Dell Convective with Azure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by akakumo via Flickr I&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; n a recent announcement, Dell and Microsoft have a tight condensation going on.&#160; Dell will be providing the hardware for Microsoft new cloud computing initiative.&#160; Windows Azure is Microsoft&#8217;s cloud services operating system.&#160; This will compromise a collection of services and hardware from Dell. &#160; &#160;&#160; Of course, when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=187</link>
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		<title>&#8220;WAFL is a Platypus!&#8221; &#8211; StorageBod</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by Dolinski via Flickr &#160; StorageBod’s recent post had me falling over, both in it’s clear silliness, but more so in the extremely hidden un-known humor.&#160;&#160; File System: “ In computing, a file system (often also written as filesystem) is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Flashback!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by seanaes via Flickr &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; In 1999, the Billboard TOP 40 had hits like Rodeo Clowns – by G Love &#38; Special Sauce &#38; Higher – by Creed.&#160; Y2K was on the minds of companies and IT folks.&#160; The DOTCOM boom was in full swing, and Bill Clinton was in office. &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=174</link>
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		<title>The Problem with &#8220;work around&#8221; fixes in IT&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by Picture Perfect Pose via Flickr &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Nothing more to say that hasn’t been said already.&#160; Basically, if you’ve have VMWare running on NetApp appliances ( SPECIFICALLY USING NFS), and have followed the best practices guides dated prior to Sept. 2008, then your IT environment might be at risk. &#160; &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Please contact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=175</link>
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		<title>Bait and Switch in Retail, Bundle and Gouge in Storage!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; In Marketing 101 you learn about the concept of Bait and Switch in advertising.&#160; The idea is &#34;fraud” and is based on the idea of advertising on product to get customers in the door, not have the advertised product in stock anymore and offer a substitute to close the business.&#160; This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=170</link>
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		<title>The end of the Muscle Car Era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The date is 1969 and the Muscle Car is king of the roads.&#160; Nobody cared that they only got 8 miles a gallon because gas was only 30 cents a gallon.&#160; The end of the muscle car era was coming however.&#160; The gas crisis was looming in the future and people could not afford to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=169</link>
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		<title>SEARS&#174; Guarantees 40:1 or better garbage to trash bag ratio!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; In recent news, and in reaction to H-Ds claim 50% tire reduction announcement, SEARS® released claims that using it’s trash compactors will condense the amount of trash a given household puts into trash bags.&#160; There are of course some limitations and requirements.&#160;&#160; Firstly, this will be measured over 30 days.&#160; Secondly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=163</link>
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		<title>The Sky is in Fact Falling! &#8211; Economic Crisis in Information Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by macspite via Flickr &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The storage blogosphere has erupted with financial market comments, analysis, and concern.&#160; My friend Marc Farley described it as potentially ”…the wheels come off the bus…”&#160;&#160; NetApp’s Dave Hitz, had an anecdote from the .Com crash that was very impactful to me personally (as I sat in executive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by HoldThatTiger via Flickr &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “Stay Tuned” is what M. Dell, CEO of Dell Computers Corp. said in response to DELL &#124; EQUALLOGIC PS-Series storage future support of SSD drives.&#160; &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; This would be groundbreaking in the performance tiers that are available on PS-series storage today.&#160; PS-series already supports 7200RPM SATA, 10k [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesantechnologist.com/?p=161</link>
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