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Interop is next week!

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Dell will be at Interop, and of course Dell Data Protection will be in the booth. Swing by and check out the booth, or find me (twitter is always best at conferences: @gminks). Hoping to get demos of our DP products (AppAssure, … Continue reading

Remembering Interop 2012

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Last week I attended Interop in Las Vegas. Interop hass traditionally been a networking show. For Dell, our Networking group organized our participation at the show. But this year, there was a definite storage presence (there was even a storage … Continue reading

What its really all about – getting social at Interop

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I think Stephen Foskett said it best in this post: “We are social people, and nothing beats meeting someone face to face.” Last week, Interop and EMC World were held in Vegas. (You can check out my review of Interop … Continue reading

Interop – week in review

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I had a great time at Interop.  I loved being there as part of the Dell Storage team. I loved reconnecting with old friends. I attended many sessions on cloud and storage. I posted some of my (mostly) unedited session … Continue reading

Interop Session – Object-based storage – the next step

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Here are my (mostly) unedited notes from the panel about Object-based storage. Vanessa Alverez also hosted the  panel. The panelists included representatives from Cleversafe, Amplidata, Caringo, and Rackspace. Question: Intros, and describe object-based storage Amplidata: they do OOS – Optimized … Continue reading

Enterprise Cloud Summit @ Interop session: Optimizing Hybrid Cloud Communication

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Short notes from panel “Optimizing Hybrid Cloud Communication” that happened during the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop. Panel moderator was Hooman Beheshti from Strangeloop Networks. Panelists included Steve Riley from Riverbed, Amir Khan from Juniper, Steve Shah from Citrix, and … Continue reading

Enterprise Cloud Summit @ Interop session: Understanding big data

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Here are my (mostly) unedited notes from the session Understanding big data by Bradford Stephens and Jeremy Edberg. What is Big Data? When you have so much info on 1 machine that you can’t get to it When it took … Continue reading

Interop Session – FCoE vs iSCSI – Making the choice

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(Mostly) unedited notes from Stephen Foskett’s Interop session. And yes, FCoTR was mentioned! Converging on convergence Data centers rely more on standard ingredients What will connect the systems together Drivers of convergence Virtualization Demanding greater nw & storage IO I/O … Continue reading

Enterprise Cloud Summit @ Interop – Linking Private and Public Clouds

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These are my slightly edited session notes. The session was led by Margaret Dawson from Hubspan. The session started by showing slides from a 2005 prezi about access/firewalls/access based on trust models are already blurring If you are using a … Continue reading

Quick post – #ECS at #Interop

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I had to run to my room to find some bandwidth, and I’m taking a page out of @cammybean’s conference experience page and posting notes I took during a couple of sessions at this morning’s Enterprise Cloud Summit. Alistair Croll … Continue reading