Watch David A. Chapa – talking from NAB 2012 – with Butch Stearns about how he got the title of Chief Technology Evangelist, Marilyn Monroe and Quantum Certainty.

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Every day IT is reminded of the challenges ahead; you don’t need me or anyone else to tell you that data is growing, virtualization is changing everything and improving backup and recovery should be top of mind. What you need is someone telling you about the solution and not about the problem. On to the solution….

Back in June of…

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…