Laptop Hunter Ad #2 Weaker Than #1

Not sure you’ve seen Giampaolo searching for the right laptop with the following requirements: portability battery life power Talk about completely vague… Vague requirements result in vague conclusions. I liked the first one, this one doesn’t do it for me. Apple Insider picks apart this ad bit by bit.

TWEEVO – The New Pop-Up Video

Off topic post – I’ve got an idea that could be explored by enterprising web-developers who wish to make some money riding the Twitter wave. You know Twitter – real-time updates across the web across a huge assortment of channels – and you know Tivo which essential turns TV into an on-demand database. What about [...]

Microsoft Releases a Few Good Ads

Lauren Gets a Laptop for Under $1000 Although she’s a paid actress, the point is well taken – PC’s are much cheaper than Mac’s. Very effective ad. Internet Explorer 8 and the History of the Internet Not sure what the point is (and it’s a bit long), but some of the flashbacks are funny – [...]

Twitter Sells ExecTweets Sponsorship to Microsoft

I found this interesting because my last post was about Twitter…  Microsoft is now getting into it! High-profile Internet start-up Twitter Inc. said Monday it’s making a foray into online advertising by selling sponsorship of a designated “ExecTweets” site to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). Twitter, a relatively young San Francisco-based service that has nonetheless raised at [...]

John Savill – Free Windows 2008 and Hyper-V Training

John Savill is a brilliant technologist who works in the EMC Consulting group.   He’s written books.  Spoken at industry conferences.   He maintains the NTFAQ.   He loves recording videos for the world to learn from… mostly related to Windows, but be sure to check out the one of him getting his ass kicked on TV! I [...]

RecoverPoint – Set It and Forget It

I hate cheesy marketing slogans as much as the next guy… but when it comes out of a customer’s mouth and they mean it, there’s no better time to pull out their cheesy slogan and put it to use. This customer was typical in the sense that they had a lot of databases, a few [...]

Maximum LUN Size for Windows Servers

Sometimes people ask hypothetical questions of EMC’s field TC’s (technical consultants) just to see what we say.  Here’s one example of a hypothetical question that a few of us were discussing internally: Question: What is the maximum size of a LUN you can present to a Windows server? Answer: 2TB or 16TB or 256TB or [...]

EMC and Microsoft Renew Partnership

Last Tuesday, there was a customer-facing meeting (CIO’s and similar level) of local customers in NYC where EMC’s Joe Tucci and Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer could discuss the EMC/Microsoft extended Go To Market Alliance, discuss areas where we are working closely, and clear the air about areas the two companies overlap.

Easily one of the funniest (storage related) videos out there.

Wow.  It’s not often enough you troll around looking for a good, thought inspiring read, that you come across something that totally cracks you up. In the following video, you will find Marc Farley (3Par) engaged in a series of illegal but funny as hell activities. Marc’s Rules Broken 1. Driving on highway at 85+ [...]

Power Windows Traffic Stats – Not Bad

I’ve been writing here for about four months now.   I’ve warped almost 2030 minds so far. This chart shows the birth of the site in October 2008 and my traffic rampup.  In 2009 I benefited from being added to the EMC Community page, making some new storage blogger friends who linked to me, and from [...]

Get Smarter on Clustering at John Toner’s Blog

I’ve written briefly about EMC’s software that can flip a traditional server cluster into a geo-cluster in minutes, aka EMC Cluster Enablers, I am amazed on how little airplay this product gets on the web, in print, and in media in general … and glad to see at least John and I talking about the merits of a stretched cluster.

Bad News for Microsoft in 2009

Jeez. It’s been a day since becoming 2009, and already Microsoft has a couple of bad news stories traveling quickly around the online world related to the Zune and … rumored layoffs.  The Zune apparently suffered the most recent form of Year 2000-esque bad coding problems related to the handling of a leap year within [...]

Don’t Know What You Got Til It’s Gone

Learn from Tom Keifer – you’ll miss your data when the drive dies.

9 Year Old Girl Becomes Youngest MCP Ever

The Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional is now just 9 years old. M. Lavinashree has broken the record held by Arfa Karim, a 10-year-old Pakistani girl, by being the youngest person to pass a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exam. Apparently she’s been breaking records like this since she was just three. Reference: Gizmodo

The Web is Still the Wild, Wild West

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings.  ~Dave Barry Did you know that spam accounts for 81.7% of all the world’s email traffic? Each day new websites are [...]

Tips for Dealing with Your Storage Admin

It happens everyday.  Yet another SQL admin falls victim to the technical prejudice of those who provide their storage.  It’s a sad story which is seen everyday throughout the currently developed world; at least those working in relatively well-funded companies.  UNIX guys make fun of Windows people. Mainframe guys refuse to believe Windows is even [...]

How Long is Your Backup Window?

Not long ago, I was giving a workshop to a few customers in Indianapolis.  The point was to educate them on what EMC could do for Microsoft apps and databases. At one point, during a short bio break, two guys were getting quite animated comparing the length of their nightly backup windows.  One was a [...]

Will Ray Ozzie save Microsoft?

Just finished reading Stephen Levy’s story in this months Wired magazine about Ray Ozzie, the new chief software architect at Microsoft and successor to Bill Gates.  He’s the one responsible for some of the more dramatic moves that the company has been promoting recently including Windows Azure, Zurich (Azure Services Platform), Live Mesh, and Office [...]

EMC’s Windows Related Webcasts Available On Demand

For a while EMC has been running their own internal web events to allow the product teams and engineers to communicate directly with people who might become customers.  Below is a list of several events that you might find interesting that are available OUTSIDE the firewall.  Enjoy! Exchange Microsoft Exchange 2007: A Second Look Leverage [...]