From What's Now To What's Next

LPP is keeping a finger on the pulse of top industry headlines and conversations buzzing around social media, so you don't have to. Below is this week's round-up to serve as information and inspiration for discussions around real-time trends. Did we miss anything? What are your thoughts on what’s happening this week? Top Stories Dell goes private: Pending regulatory and stockholder approval – the company has been sold to Microsoft, Silver Lake, and Michael Dell himself for $24.4 billion. Will...

Tech in the New Year: #GartnerSym Flashbacks and Predictions

The new year is set to bring new(er) opportunities in tech. One of our first stops to exchange thoughts on tech trends in 2013 and beyond was the 2012 Gartner Symposium & IT Expo, where fellow IT and tech professionals took a look at the future of Big Data and the shape of things to come. In this video with Rich Wadsworth, our Vice President of Business Development, we discuss some of what he learned at the latest Gartner event...

Time is Running Out...TechTrailblazer Awards Deadline! #TTawards

This is not another post on a last-minute store sale. Nor is this a post on a get-rich-quick scheme. What this is, is a post on one of the industry's newest award ventures, the Tech Trailblazer Awards -- @TechTrailblaze and #TTAwards for the Twitter-inclined. I covered the launch of the awards last month in a post here. It isn't often you can say "thank you" for your service provider outage, but in this case for those of us who wait...

#FF @TechTrailblaze

Every once in a while you know you have a great idea, but the time may not be right. It could be something you share in a proposal, or suggest to a friend, or bounce off a few colleagues. You know it's good, but no one quite knows how it could work or when they could do it. That was the case with the latest global award the TechTrailBlazers. The brainchild of Rose Ross, chief trailblazer at the Tech Trailblazers...

Talking Storage with Jerome Wendt, DCIG: Part Two

I sat down with Jerome Wendt, founder and principal at DCIG, while he was in town to attend the Dell Storage Forum. DCIG is an analyst firm that is heavily focused on data center technologies, with deep roots in the storage industry. In this conversation, Jerome shares some of his thoughts on the flash frenzy and as well as the interesting things end users are telling him. The following is the second installment of a two-part conversation with Jerome (Read...

Talking Storage with Jerome Wendt, DCIG: Part One

I had a chance to sit down with Jerome Wendt, founder and principal at DCIG, an analyst firm that is heavily focused on data center technologies, with deep roots in the storage industry. Jerome and I have known each other for years, and he was gracious enough to talk through areas of recent focus and provide a little more detail on the work he and others at his firm have been doing with the Buyer’s Guides. The following is the...

Why There's No Snoring in Storage

While it's safe to say there probably aren't many technologies I don't like, I've always had a soft spot for storage. And, yes, there are a few who know I take it seriously enough to "Heart Storage." With that said, one of the benefits of working in the industry for as long as I have, is that you get to meet some interesting people. Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst at DCIG is one of them. I had a chance...

Are We Doing the Storage Industry a Disservice (#SNWUSA)?

Storage is hot. There I said it. If there’s one thing that is resonating loud and clear from the Santa Clara Convention Center, home to the Spring Storage Networking World Conference (#SNWUSA), there are still a large number --2,000+ if you believe some -- that "heart" storage and are alive and well. While I have waxed poetically in the past about the prospects for SNW, here, here and here, the age old questions still remain. Will the conference remain relevant?...

InfoSmack Live from London! A Survivor's Tale...

Last week all of London was a-Twitter with news that the heralded InfoSmack podcast hosted by the creative and sometimes less conventional genius of Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley was going to record "live" from the Golden Fleece. Taking advantage of scheduled travel from leading bloggers for HDSday, and two excellent events,#StorageBeers (created as a "social gathering of storage and infrastructure folks") and #vBeers (created as a "social get together of like-minded virtualization enthusiasts"), 50 or so lucky people got...

Virtually in Dallas, A chat with Ovum's Tim Stammers on Citrix

I had a chance to catch up with Ovum Senior Analyst Tim Stammers after he attended a recent Citrix analyst event in Dallas, Texas. The following is a quick recap of the discussion. Tim, I understand there was considerable discussion it seemed coming out of the event about how relevant Citrix is in the virtual infrastructure, what’s your take? It’s difficult to credit Citrix with much influence over virtual infrastructure, aka public and private cloud building. Citrix’ XenServer is technically...