Last October I wrote: "By late 2012, federated storage will be the architecture of choice for large new storage deployments. These capabilities will dramatically improve IT's ability to respond to business needs with minimal disruptions. IT organizations should plan to aggressively adopt federated storage as it becomes commercially available." Around that same timeframe, Nick Allen wrote a piece about Chad Sakac’s Long Distance Live vMotion demo at VMworld 2009 and asked : "So, has EMC solved the long-distance cache coherency and distributed lock management problem that has plagued the industry forever?" Today (3/11/2010), EMC’s President of Information Infrastructure, Pat Gelsinger unveiled a vision for federated storage

With the recent battle between Cablevision and Disney over Retransmission Consent in New York regarding WABC-TV carriage on Cablevisions 3.1 million subscribers, and thereby producing a coalition of Cable Providers to petition the FCC to intervene in negotiations, is akin to the saying: (be careful what you ask for). It seems to me, this is a business market negotiation best handled through competitive market forces rather than asking the FCC to get involved in a dispute between two companies. The (ax can cut both ways) when it comes to oversight of the pipeline distribution and broadcasting industries. Yes, consumers are caught in the middle, wanting pertinent and relevant programming for a reasonable price, while public negotiations and

As reported on Friday I was reporting a huge announcement from Cisco that was dubbed "The Internet will change forever" hype. If you want to track the live blogging of the announcement go here from Scott Raynovich. It was the general opinion of all journalists that this made Cisco look bad for overhyping this announcement.  TelecomTV was very critical of this overhype. I reported five major elements that Cisco was going to announce an end-to-end network play which would either will be announced individually or collectively as one big “grand” vision. Here is what I heard and posted last Friday Here is what appears to be breaking next week: 1) An “AppleTV” style cable set top or edge consumer box based on their Scientific

{Editors Note:  I am pleased to have @Stu post some of his opinoins and observations here on SiliconAngle. Although Stu works for EMC these thoughts are his own cross posted from his personal blog. -- Please give Stu a big welcome to SiliconAngle. - Cheers John @Furrier} I had the pleasure of attending the Ethernet Technology Summit last week in San Jose.  In addition to presenting as part of the FCoE track, I was able to spend a day getting updated on 40Gb and 100Gb Ethernet from the people and vendors involved in creating the standards which are both expected to be ratified in June 2010.  While most enterprise customers are only now starting to deploy 10Gb Ethernet, the completion of the higher speeds are very important developments

Update: Cisco Announces upgrade but no set top box and no telepresence. Three out of five of this report announced by Cisco. Reactions were not that favorable. Update (March 8 2010): Cisco's Future Is Already Here -- Looks like Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC, and Finistar are demonstrating trials on the eve of Cisco's big announcement reported by FierceTelcom, Information Week, and released by Verizon today. The announcement came as Cisco was preparing a major announcement for Tuesday, believed to be its entry in the 100G race. Google has already said it plans to test 100G networks in selected regions. You can take the 100G piece out of the Cisco equation and the notion that Verizon will be standing with Cisco at their podium.

At Mobile World Congress #mwc10 Juniper Networks Social Event in Barcelona I had a chance to sit down for an hour with the founder of Juniper Networks Pradeep Sindhu. We talked about network theory in media and in mobile applications as well as the changes in the networking systems. This was the first time that I had the chance to meet and discuss technology with Pradeep. I was very impressed. He's proven to be a world class entrepreneur in his success with building Juniper from inception to the size it is now. More impressive is his humble, intelligent, and pragmatic view on where networking is at and where it's evolving. Pradeep still has that entrepreneurial fire in his approach. I was really impressed with his vision for the new netw

Once upon a time, when I was a student of economics and foreign policy, we had to learn about government five-year plans to accomplish this or that. "The central government is marshaling the productive forces to build X, Y or Z for the people" and so forth. Fill in the blanks depending on the day or year. In those days, the subject geography was the Soviet Union. Fast forward a few decades, and we now have adopted the government five-year planning syndrome right here at home in the United States. From the auto industry to the banking industry, student loans, energy policy -- you name it. The Federal Communications Commission is on the case with broadband. So what is the pretext for this new Soviet-style FCC plan to do something

It is estimated that poor customer service has cost the Cable/Satellite Industry over $12 billion in lost revenues over the past year, ahead of the financial services industry with more than $10 billion in losses; which is startling considering Cable/Satellite companies project themselves as the future of home and business subscription services of all things information and entertainment. How can these companies survive with such a poor record of customer care?  Take the up and coming consumers, ages 27 – 43, who terminated services most frequently at 1 ½ times per year compared to older consumers. These consumers are the target audience that Cable/Telecom companies want the most due to their powerful (Triple Play) buying power. T

One of the things that need re-engineering in the deployment of cloud computing  is that I find that often times the thought of  how it fits into an organization seems to be incongruent with the methods in which traditional applications get procured in an organization.  I say re-engineering because what this introduces is a departure from the standard mentality of application deployment. Traditionally, this has been addressed in a fairly consistent manner.  The general traditional track means: an application platform is proposed and identified, then physical and network systems are provisioned, application is put into place, and finally put into production.  That’s extremely high-level and grazes over many impor

Today cloud and infrastructure service provider Opsource continues to evolve their cloud offering with the introduction of a handful of new features that should help greatly fuel future enterprise adoption. All of these updates are geared towards those potential enterprise customers that might be thinking about adopting a cloud platform for their needs but have been holding back because of what they deem as a certain lack of control and transparency. First, Opsource is extending their role and security model to allow for primary and secondary or sub administrator roles to be defined.  On top of this access control layer they are introducing the next version of their billing and auditing support detailed on a per user, per month basi