- Robin Harris at StorageMojo has his own take on the launch. I find posts on the business options that these products represent to be interesting, it is a bit of a dynamic time in storage!
- The StorageIOBlog has a two part series on the XtremeIO with their own take.
- And last but not least, Itzik has a post on the launch with videos and all! Plus there is a bit on the differences/benefits of the XtremeIO. I’ll be interested to see the penetration of the product in the market going forward, the publicity generated by an XtremeIO being used for the VMware Hands-On-Labs sure doesn’t hurt (although EMC part owns VMware…).
- For those of you who require some kind of Microsoft guidance to make a decision I have a gift for you. Microsoft recommend not using RC4 and SHA-1. Honestly in this day and age if you are using RC4 I would be very worried.
- While it is all fun and games to laugh at Azure going down taking a whole bunch of public Microsoft websites with it, it also serves as a timely reminder that the “cloud” isn’t some magical beast that has 100% uptime just because there are lots of data centres scattered across the world. Monitoring your off premise availability is just as important as monitoring on premise. Perhaps this is the “Kondratiev wave” of IT, marketing convinces people that the new shiny doesn’t need any of the old ways, tech gets implemented to the suffering of the users/business, new shiny gets operationalised enough for the “old ways” to be implemented again. Such is life I guess.
