In the afternoon, it is off to the Brocade press conference to announce the companys vision for server consolidation and network convergence, along with several related product introductions. After that I have a meeting with a Wall Street storage analyst to compare notes, and then I'm meeting with Netgear about their new SMB storage products. Next up is LSI for a discussion about their upcoming products. Then Nirvanix will provide me an update on how their Cloud Storage strategy is going.
But wait, there's more. In the evening I will have a quick meeting with Storwize to discuss their latest products and find out why they are marching through the inline compression market unabated. Another meeting with Brocade follows, this one with its CTO, Dave Stevens. I'm also meeting with Data Robotics, where I am hoping to score their just plain cool Drobo (more on that later, too). Finally -- finally! -- I will wrap up the evening with a finally a meeting with Axcient to discuss their new SMB Cloud Backup Strategy.
I am ready, laptop, broadband card, and several 1-liter bottles of Mountain Dew. Stay tuned: My goal is to provide an update after almost every meeting. Also pray for our poor editors, who are going to have to edit some very on-the-fly posts.
George Crump is founder of Storage Switzerland , which provides strategic consulting and analysis to storage users, suppliers, and integrators. Prior to Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest integrators.
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