My final meeting of the day was with Tarmin, which has a disk archiving platform with the data movement software built in. As I said yesterday, disk archiving is a technology that can reduce both capex and opex costs at the same time. The technology, GridBank, does this by leveraging commodity, heterogeneous storage, and servers. The result is a software front end that has integrated content search, with the ability to publish and share that content as needed.
Last fall's show was all about reducing capital spending with technologies like de-duplication and compression. There was also a lot of talk about Cloud Storage. Those themes were still present at the show this year, but the focus was more about using all these technologies and others to allow the IT staff to become more efficient. This is an important bridge for suppliers and customers to cross.
Almost every solution today can be packaged as a way to save you money. The question to ask is: Can it do that and make you more efficient?
For the most part, spring SNW is in the books. It is finally warming up here, so I am off to the beach to get a little R&R this weekend.
2:20 PM -- I am racing from one vendor meeting to another at Storage Networking World in Orlando. I am finding the pressure of doing the blog updates to be very helpful. It makes me pay attention, and then having to re-write my thoughts crystallizes things in my mind much more quickly. Still, it can be a bit crazy.
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for Juniper Networks, explains how the advanced technology is transforming operations.
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