Big Blue is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment. A CNET article by Reuters, . Published on September 7, 2008 9:45 PM PDT.

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I have believed for sometime now that storage market will stay healthy for the foreseeable future no matter what happens to the broader economy in general and IT in particular in the short term. IBM has recognized the bullish future in storage market and is pitching new solutions focusing on virtualization, deduplication and solid state drives. Cool, isn’t it! I thought so, all these are amazing technologies designed to cut storage cost, and energy footprint of the data centers. The article also talks about EMC coming up with wholesome solutions, covering hardware, software and services around it. I think NetApp is also eyeing the same market, with increasing focus on virtualization and services offering to the enterprise client. This market is getting interesting by the day, and I think the pie is big enough for many players to survive, will see! As a storage experts, anything positive on this industry is really good news for us!

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Big Blue is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment. A CNET article by Reuters, . Published on September 7, 2008 9:45 PM PDT.

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I have believed for sometime now that storage market will stay healthy for the foreseeable future no matter what happens to the broader economy in general and IT in particular in the short term. IBM has recognized the bullish future in storage market and is pitching new solutions focusing on virtualization, deduplication and solid state drives. Cool, isn’t it! I thought so, all these are amazing technologies designed to cut storage cost, and energy footprint of the data centers. The article also talks about EMC coming up with wholesome solutions, covering hardware, software and services around it. I think NetApp is also eyeing the same market, with increasing focus on virtualization and services offering to the enterprise client. This market is getting interesting by the day, and I think the pie is big enough for many players to survive, will see! As a storage experts, anything positive on this industry is really good news for us!

This is a lazy summer Saturday afternoon! Part of me is telling me to go out and have fun with the family, part of me is asking me to take care of some unfinished projects. I hate when I have this conflict and it has been happening quite frequently lately At the end it is usually the later that wins, though some time I do give in to temptations, particularly when my younger kid gets involved and then there is no running away from weekend family responsibility! Our best pass time is going out visiting friends, relatives, nephews.. or for dinner(usually Indian restaurants and we are strict vegetarian, content with naan, paneer curry, navratan korma, pullao etc), occasionally to Taco Bell, Pizza Hut…

Back form our outing, it usually doesn’t stop there, I may also have rented a consensus movie of choice to watch in our home theater.When I rent a movie title, I make sure it is likely to have good surround sound effect wherein I can tap full potential of my Dolby Digital 5.1, 1200 watts Panasonic home theater system on a crystal clear big Plasma screen! Last year it was “War of the Worlds”, “Cars”,”The pirates of the Caribbean” which gave me my money’s worth, this year I have “Ghost Rider”, “Dreamgirls”, “Ant Bully” and so on…

The weekdays also just go by so quickly in the middle of so many things happening right now. Working in the technology area, there is no dearth of challenges which need to be taken care of, having growing up kids means having to take them out for guitar lessons, piano lessons and so on. Once in a while I have to give a helping hand to my wife and need to pick her up back from work. Just plain and simple ordinary days. Still these days have a charm of their own.I know few years down the road, when these settings change, I am going to miss them. To preserve these memories I do take pictures some time, my Nikon D50 comes handy and occasionally I will roll the camcorder as well. Once in a year, I sit down and compile these pictures and home videos and guess what, send them to my mom and dad! The magic continues

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This is a lazy summer Saturday afternoon! Part of me is telling me to go out and have fun with the family, part of me is asking me to take care of some unfinished projects. I hate when I have this conflict and it has been happening quite frequently lately At the end it is usually the later that wins, though some time I do give in to temptations, particularly when my younger kid gets involved and then there is no running away from weekend family responsibility! Our best pass time is going out visiting friends, relatives, nephews.. or for dinner(usually Indian restaurants and we are strict vegetarian, content with naan, paneer curry, navratan korma, pullao etc), occasionally to Taco Bell, Pizza Hut…

Back form our outing, it usually doesn’t stop there, I may also have rented a consensus movie of choice to watch in our home theater.When I rent a movie title, I make sure it is likely to have good surround sound effect wherein I can tap full potential of my Dolby Digital 5.1, 1200 watts Panasonic home theater system on a crystal clear big Plasma screen! Last year it was “War of the Worlds”, “Cars”,”The pirates of the Caribbean” which gave me my money’s worth, this year I have “Ghost Rider”, “Dreamgirls”, “Ant Bully” and so on…

The weekdays also just go by so quickly in the middle of so many things happening right now. Working in the technology area, there is no dearth of challenges which need to be taken care of, having growing up kids means having to take them out for guitar lessons, piano lessons and so on. Once in a while I have to give a helping hand to my wife and need to pick her up back from work. Just plain and simple ordinary days. Still these days have a charm of their own.I know few years down the road, when these settings change, I am going to miss them. To preserve these memories I do take pictures some time, my Nikon D50 comes handy and occasionally I will roll the camcorder as well. Once in a year, I sit down and compile these pictures and home videos and guess what, send them to my mom and dad! The magic continues