Information Playground

Building Private Clouds

Chuck's latest posts on private clouds, found here and here, have got me a little worried.

I'm concerned that a large number of people might read his posts and assume that builders around the globe here at EMC need to get busy constructing this grandiose vision.

Truth be told: we've already delivered the first pieces into customer hands.

Another truth be told: we've been building these pieces for several years. For how long have we been building them?

Ever since the acquisition of VMWARE.

Object Cornucopia

I was introduced to the world of object-based storage in 2003 when I joined the Centera team.  After spending a large part of my career building block-based technologies like CLARiiON, Navi, and PowerPath, the world of objects seemed like a wide-open, growing field and a great opportunity to learn new things for years to come.

I was right.

As I enter my sixth year of exploring new directions for this technology it seems I'm still in the "on-ramp" phase when it comes to the opportunity for building new object-based products and features. 

That translates into some more posts on the topic and (hopefully) collaboration on new directions with other interested parties in the blogosphere.

So I'll start with my own "object" retrospective from 2008.

Time-based Organization

I've been reading the blogs about office organization with some interest. People organize their offices based on how their brain works and what tasks they work on.

Scott uses the window filtering techniques that Mac provides. Dave organizes his workspace into layers. Stu goes for the multi-monitor approach.

The "timing" of this topic is perfect. I just completed my yearly ritual of creating a new folder on my desktop. The folder is called "2009".

I organize everything by time.