Post-Vacation Blogging
Posted inLife @ EMC

Post-Vacation Blogging

Last week was school vacation week in Massachusetts. Most of the public schools give kids the week off, and many EMC employees in the NorthEast took the week off as…
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CLARiiON Parity Shedding
Posted inCLARiiON

CLARiiON Parity Shedding

You never know where inspiration might strike. Before the release of the first CLARiiON, the VP of Engineering held an impromptu data integrity meeting. We had put a lot of…
Expert System
Posted inLife @ EMC

Expert System

I'm returning to the Information Playground theme. There's been a flurry of acquisitions made recently by EMC. This equates to increasing the size of the geodesic dome that myself and ...
A Word About XAM
Posted inCentera

A Word About XAM

The XAM announcement today is a major deal for Centera. It caused me to think about conversations that were occuring outside my cubicle three years ago. I sat near the ...
Looking for a Job?
Posted inStorage Curriculum

Looking for a Job?

One of my first interviews while in college was for a job building storage products. I clearly remember hearing a few acronyms that I didn't know. During the interview there ...
People + Objects = Centera
Posted inCentera

People + Objects = Centera

Increasing amounts of the world's personal information will be stored on Centera systems. I can prove it. The month of March saw a number of announcements about Centera. The one ...
CLARiiON NVRAM
Posted inCLARiiON

CLARiiON NVRAM

I was wondering if there was a website out there which listed some of the many non-standard RAID levels. I found one here. It's a good read. I'll often follow…
Opening Day
Posted inSports

Opening Day

Why build software for the storage industry for so many years?  For me and many others, it comes down to one word. Challenge. It's not easy creating world-class products for…