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Lessons Learned from SNW 2013

April 30, 2013 12:10 PM

I picked up on two important trends at SNW 2013, including the role that IT can play as an internal broker for public cloud services, and the reasons enterprises are moving cautiously on emerging technology.

SNW Trots Out 'Cool' Storage Tech

April 09, 2012 09:00 AM

The Storage Networking World I attended in Dallas last week was a substantially different event than SNWs of old. In the past, SNW was the event where storage vendors socialized with each other, mixing business and pleasure over drinks and the pre-conference golf outing. This SNW seemed to have a lot more end users there for the education sessions and hands-on labs.

The SNW Report: Lots Of Flash, Cache Is King

April 11, 2011 07:00 AM

This week I kicked off my spring trade show and conference season at Storage Network World at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It was the first time in recent memory that the show was in Silicon Valley, the center of the tech universe, and that seemed to have brought out a crowd with more end-users than in the past. Aside from the all encompassing cloud, I heard a lot of buzz about flash memory based products, especially those using flash as cache for other storage systems.

Conferences, Trade Shows and Field Days

June 16, 2010 09:00 AM

Sitting in the lab during the four days I have to get any work done between conferences, I'm struck by how different the events on my calendar this spring and summer have been. I've been to vendor/user love fests, end-user education driven events, classic trade shows and now I am on my way to my favorite insider-only deal-o-rama, an invite-only geek fest. Very different events but each seems to serve a target market pretty well.

SNW Summary

April 15, 2010 02:16 PM

What were the key themes of the Spring 2010 Storage Networking World? Well there are two sides of SNW. There is my side, where I spend all day in briefings with suppliers of the technology, and there is the user side where other individuals spend their time in sessions and hands on labs.

SNW And Thoughts On Deduplication

April 13, 2010 02:00 PM

As predicted last week one of the first topics of discussion at Storage Networking World was deduplication. Our first briefing was with Sepaton, who had a panel on the topic. As part of my conversation with Sepaton (for hourly updates on our briefings at the show please go to our blog), we had a broader discussion about the future of deduplication as part of the backup process.

SNW Predictions, Part Two

March 30, 2010 02:00 PM

If there is one word you are going to hear a lot at SNW this year, it's "cloud." Everyone is going to have something going on with cloud storage. Even companies that really don't have anything new to offer will suddenly have a "cloud offering." In addition to the whole cloud conversation, I think there is going to be some heated discussion around SAS-2 vs. Fibre. SAS-2 brings a 6-Gb/s transfer rate, a standardized expander zoning and backward compatibility. How will SAS as an infrastructure be able to compete with fibre? How far up the data center scale can it go? Is it really ready for the enterprise?

Predictions For Spring SNW 2010

March 25, 2010 03:00 PM

With SNW 2010 only three weeks away, my briefing calendar is already filling up, but I am trying to determine what some of the key themes are going to be this year. While we can't say the economy is rocking and rolling again, it does seem that IT Professionals are on the hunt to solve some specific challenges in their data centers. Here are my predictions of what is going to come out of SNW 2010.

Education Is The Name Of The Game At SNW

October 27, 2009 01:00 PM

Everyone should understand why the educational value of trade shows still makes them an industry necessity even in difficult economic times. The semi-annual Storage Networking World (SNW) conference, held recently in Phoenix, Arizona, serves as an illustration. SNW is a joint venture between Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).