Recently, a comic was created about me… working
I encourage you to check it out – click on the picture to get the full-view of it ;)
Also, if you like it, please comment on the origin blog where it was posted – that’ll encourage her to create more of these ‘resume building’ comics :)
Psst, did you know we’re in a recession? Yea, can you imagine that? Now is the time to take every dollar we can from every person just to snake on by, right? Err, no.
No, this is a time to band together, and raise the bar together not only as individuals but more importantly as a community. The Technology community is a particularly strong one, where we reach out and help each other, even in cut-throat situations where we’re against each other, we want to help.
Enter the newest innovation in this from Microsoft.
This is just one in a series of Community Investment opportunities which will be announced in the market (and by announced, I mean I will search and track them down and tell you about them :))
This is particularly cool as in the “Basics” section, it has just that – the basics to get someone to be digitally literate. Perfect for those with no current knowledge or minimal knowledge and skill-set in the digital age. An excellent starting point.
I also particularly like this offer, for those trying to be employed or want to remain more relevant in their current positions:
I encourage you to check out all of the resources, whether you’re looking for work, currently employed or interested in pursuing a career in technology.
Truly, do yourself a favor and elevate yourself, the free parts certainly hit the right price point!:)
So seriously, if you haven’t seen this post by Steve or Val, well.. until things are released I cannot say much more than them! But once I can, you’ll get the motherload of it!
What can I say, which has already been said though…
For those of you who manage NetApp filers, you likely are familiar with the Command Line (CLI) or FilerView. I’d like to say “Welcome to the change to that experience” and that change comes in the form of an MMC snap-in which looks a bit like this!
Believe me, if I didn’t fear for my own disclosure, I’d say more!
One of my favorite bits of this, is the fact that I can manage multiple filers from this single interface – Add them in and they’re ready to go. The same can be said for multiple members of a cluster. What? It knows who its cluster pairs are and can tell you about issues? no that’s far too cool to be true.
There’s so much more… which I look forward to disclosing when this officially launches, but just do know that it is really-cool and will improve your management experience even more-so than you currently have today!
I will say nothing more on this! :)
Firstly, let me commend Beth Pariseau for this great article and interview with Fusion-io, including the deep-dive discussions with them!
Now that the formalities are out of the way… time to be not so nice ;)
I like the idea of the Fusion-io devices, I even mentioned them last June, so I’ll call it like it is!
What Fusion-io brings to the table is indeed a nice comprehensive solution to provide high-speed data access in a very small foot-print. This is indeed a fact, I’m sure none of us will argue that they are indeed providing you to have very FAST storage operating in a distributed model, which works out perfectly in a one-off scenario in ways hard to even address!
The business challenges which Fusion-io solves is the difficulty of getting high-speed disk closer to very specific applications (such as grid-computing in ‘x’ number of boxes or OLTP) and it does a pretty good job of that, allowing me to insert their solution into my existing commodity servers!
However, for the one challenge this solution solves it still leaves all of the other pressing issues as this forces us into a distributed fashion, almost contradicting the consolidation efforts which Virtualization, FCoE and and Virtualized storage bring into the Datacenter.
So, I commend the effort, however the implementation of distribution not only increases my risk but it raises question of my scalability of this as a long-term viable implementation. Here’s a top down list of challenges addressed and non-addressed with this implementation.
Infact, when you think about it, the Fusion-io introduction is a clear replacement for DAS in the current datacenter, but it lags so behind conventional (and even archaic) models of SAN implementations that it’d be hard-pressed for any Data Center or Enterprise Architect to use this in any extensive deployment with the lack of scalability, DR/BC sensitivity, HA application and short and long-term backup and archival.
On it’s own, it’s a challenge to see it last and take a significant portion of the Enterprise Storage market as a whole but as a niche player it is king. With offerings like TMS – RAMSAN, the NetApp V-Series RAMSAN Bundle, and other SSD/EFD solutions premiered by the larger storage vendors this will not only continue to be an aggressive play in the future but will set a precedent of things to come.
It just goes to show, storage is dumb – It is how you use it and the intelligence into managing it which is the clear differentiator, and these differentiators will set the dogs apart from the wolves. (or lolcats if preferred)
Thanks TechCrunch for bringing us the Cloud Computing Round Table this Friday afternoon!
When it was announced that this cloud event was going to go on, those of us who couldn’t be there were concerned about our ability to catch it.
But in the passion and the inspiration of the Cloud and industry, they were able to get it streamed so folks like me in Chicago and folks across the world (to the tune of ~1500 watchers) were able to catch this great event.
A number of companies were showing off their products in the beginning and the clear winners were Veodia and Diomede Storage
Veodia
—Video recording through the cloud.
Diomede Storage—Cheap, green storage with power-saving technologies at one tenth the cost of Amazon S3. Or so they claim..
They were judged, appropriately by this panel of judges:
Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
George Zachary, partner, Charles River Ventures
Geoff Ralston, CEO LaLa
David Bernstein, VP/General Manager, Cisco
David Kralik, Silicon Valley office Director of Newt Gingrich
And the interaction and discussion which ensued was enjoyed by all. They did go easy and hard on some of the folks, but that is the game.
In all, the whole event was pretty active on Twitter as well with #tccloud as well as regular discussion and conversation. Some of the more active folks discussing the event were myself, @cxi, @ashley_martin, @neerajKA, @missrogue, and @tekoppele
The ustream.tv livechat was pretty active as well! But none of us cached that for posterity!
One of the major questions was – Will this information be available for watching later, and the answer is Yes! The Cloud Computing Round Table is available here to watch.
So, if you were able to catch it, excellent! If not, I encourage you to watch it after the fact.
The panelists had some great talking points, and the discussions albeit very light were informative to the parties watching.
Special thanks to the Round Table of folks:
Vic Gundotra, VP Engineering, Google
Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate VP, Windows Azure
Lew Tucker, CTO, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems
Scott Dietzen, SVP Communications Products, Yahoo
Paul Buchheit, Co-founder, FriendFeed; creator of Gmail
Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon
Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning
John Engates, CTO, Rackspace
Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com
Thanks all of you who participated in the discussions… and I swear I’ll launch that Cloud blog when I have some free time… I just need 15 minutes ;)