Say Hello at SNW

I am planning to attend Storage Networking World (SNW), April 16 - 19, 2007 in San Diego. I will be there as storage blogger and plan to blog often about interesting stuff from the conference floor, thanks to SNW organizers. Hopefully, I will meet lots of people from my favorite storage startups Cleversafe, Storewiz and InPhase, other storage vendors and users.



I am looking forward to seeing fellow storage bloggers, familiar faces from the past and some strangers who will become familiar in the future. If you will be at SNW and want to get together, leave a comment, send an email, call 206-390-4580 and give me a date and time when you would like to meet.

An Evening with Bloggers

I also would like to bring together all bloggers attending SNW for one evening. Please get in touch with me, if:

• You are a blogger attending SNW and want to meet face-to-face with fellow bloggers.


• You are interested in helping with organizing a bloggers evening at SNW.


• You are interested in discussions with bloggers.

Suggestions for SNW Attendees

Unlike fellow bloggers, Jeremiah Owyang, Chuck Hollis, Dave Hitz, and Hu Yoshida, I attend very few conferences during a year and like to leverage such opportunities to the maximum.

What were your experiences at SNW in the past? What looks interesting this year? What suggestions would you offer to SNW attendees?

Use comments below to share your thoughts.

Data Deluge - Storage software need to step up!

From EMC sponsored IDC study, The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010 [PDF].

In 2006, the amount of digital information created, captured, and replicated was 161 Exabyte (EB) = 161,000 Petabyte (PB) = 161,000,000 Terabyte (TB). Three million times the information ever written in books.

From storage perspective, 403 million hard drives of average 400GB capacity each without any RAID protection would have been required to store all the digital data, 93% of all hard drives produced in 2006.

In 2010, the information added annually to the digital universe will increase six folds to 988 EB.

To use same number (403 million) of hard drives in 2010 as in 2006, disk capacity will have to increase to average 2.4 TB.

The most telling statement in IDC study, I found, is:

In 2007 the amount of information created will surpass, for the first time, the storage capacity available.

This only goes to show that we just cannot rely on capacity of storage media to store all information created. Software has to step up to make sure that we can store all information created on the storage available to us. And that is why I believe technologies like data de-duplication and compression will finally become appealing in primary storage arena. See, my previous post Data De-duplication for Primary Storage.

Also, check out my new favorite storage startup Storewiz focusing on compression for primary storage.

Update: Canceled - Seattle Storage Event: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)

Canceled

Checkout the local storage event organized by Puget Sound Storage Networking User Group (PS-SNUG) on Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) later this month.

DATE: Thursday, March 29, 2007

TIME: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

LOCATION: SANZ Inc., 150 Nickerson Street, Suite 206, Seattle, WA 98109. Free parking available! Map

TOPIC: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA): Designing Storage Environments to Match Business Needs

SPEAKER: Abbott Schindler, HP StorageWorks. Abbott Schindler has been in Storage development for 11 years; and a storage technologist with technical marketing experience for the past 15 years. He is currently involved with storage grids, virtualization and other leading edge strategies for HP. He has delivered extensive trainings and public presentations internationally, both internal and external to HP.

AGENDA: 12:30 PM: Pizza, Soda, and Networking. 1:00 PM: Presentation. 2:00 PM: Q&A. 2:30 PM: Conclusion and $50 Best Buy Gift Card Drawing

RSVP: To register, please visit SNUG website.

There is no charge to attend; however, we ask that you register for refreshment planning purposes. Meetings are open to anyone interested in discussing data storage in a vendor-neutral, education-focused environment.