Not too long ago I was an industry analyst, so I know first hand how much time analysts typically spend getting briefed by vendors on the latest, greatest product. It’s the only way to maintain any authority on what’s going on in the industry, and you have to get pretty good at separating the good stuff from the simply adequate.…

The other day on Twitter I noticed a tweet by HDS (Hitachi Data Systems). It was about why you should go read Hu’s blog (Hu Yoshida, VP and CTO of HDS) and find out why there is an increasing need for scale-up storage.

Then, literally within 30 minutes, I see a NetApp tweet that says why…

One of the things I loathe about the end of the year are all the prediction articles, blogs and postings that crop up – and yes, this is the introduction to my 2012 predictions. The reason perhaps that I have this disdain for these things in the past is many of the ones that I have read were not really…

Quantum’s new Chief Technology Evangelist, David A. Chapa, runs through a short personal introduction. You can follow all of David’s posts by clicking here. David is a storage industry veteran and former ESG analyst. Watch David’s introduction video: