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re: Is Sun giving up or changing the game?

Taylor Allis — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:22:01 GMT

[Trackback] Our Open Storage announcement drummed up interest in the industry - and for good reason...

re: Improved SSD Performance Coming Soon

Luca — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:39:05 GMT

Is this SSD already avalable in europe. Is that the 64Gb option that I will found in XPS configurator as an additional 550€ cost.

I really need a notebook with this technology to speed up my work!

Regards,

Luca

re: Pointy headed blogger bites the hands the fed him

Marc Farley, Inside IT Lead Blogger — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:10:14 GMT

Don, I'm glad your mother liked it. Its important to keep our moms happy. So do you think I should keep the pointy-head look? - it covers all the bad hair.

re: Pointy headed blogger bites the hands the fed him

Don Bulens — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:14:20 GMT

Hey Marc -

Thanks for the congrats (and the Fearless Leader link - which my mother thought was hilarious), but the recognition for our pre-Dell success has to go to our entire team and to the visionary founders of our great company. And, as you mention so often, the inspiring community of customers and channel partners who have embraced our solution.

It continues to be an extraordinary journey and I am grateful to be part of it ...

Don

re: Our customer Jason Powell might have a problem....

Marc Farley, Inside IT Lead Blogger — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:57:08 GMT

With or without power?

Whats for dinner? SCSI tartare

re: Our customer Jason Powell might have a problem....

Jason Powell — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:45:42 GMT

Hey Marc, I wondered if any EqualLogic guys would see that post ;-)

And yes, it is still in the dinning room at least through the weekend.

re: Shine on U crazy diamond!

Marc Farley, Inside IT Lead Blogger — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:42:16 GMT

Yes, I suppose, but not an afficianado. This weekend there is a hot blues festival in San Jose. I'll be there. FWIW, I miss Albert Collins real bad.

re: Shine on U crazy diamond!

Nik Simpson — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:11:15 GMT

So you're a blues fan Mark? We'll have to compare Ipod sometime ;-)

re: Our big virtualization mojo

Nik Simpson — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:46:49 GMT

I think the original article is spot on, the real money and power is managing virtual machines, not in the hypervisor itself. My bet is that the hypervisor will become something akin to the 21st century BIOS, something that's just there and that people don't really care that much about (when was the last time you chose a machine because it had a Phoenix rather than an AMI BIOS?)

Ultimately, the hypervisor is a technology that will be completely commodotized and virtualization vendors that don't react to this trend will disappear.

re: Our big virtualization mojo

Marc Farley, Inside IT Lead Blogger — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:53:07 GMT

Where does this lead us and what does this all mean for the future of the hypervisor? Any thoughts?

Hmmm..... My opinion is that the most "open" approach will be the most appealing - as in how does a customer get the most leverage from the options that are available. There is a huge tax to customers if cross platform functional and management barriers are set up - as is the case in the storage industry where there is nil interoperability between storage subsystems sold by different vendors. Of course, this effectively diminishes the potential value-added margins of an individual hypervisor company. Customers need to vote early and often with their checkbooks on this one because it's the only opinion that really matters.

Also I'm thinking we should have posted a warning with this blog post "Geeks @ Work" In the vid, Chris definitely has the look, but Drew talks the talk.