A new media adventure
StorageMojo is decamping to Silicon Valley tomorrow. On Thursday I’ll be doing my first webinar – ever – with Dan Leary of Nimble Storage on the topic Not Just a Flash in the Pan: Proven Strategies for Successful SSD Deployment in the Midsize Enterprise.
Didn’t realize how long that title was until I tried to put it on a slide.
The StorageMojo take
My focus is on addressing IT concerns about flash-based products. One part carrot – look at the massive benefits that flash SSDs bring to storage architectures – and one part medicine – IT folks attitudes towards flash tend to be gloomier than the product’s rapid progress justifies.
My own flash posts, nearly 5 years ago, were downbeat – too many unanswered questions – and as in any new area some companies made better decisions than others. The resulting noise made “go really slow” the IT default. In the recent survey on StorageMojo I found that IT remains more skeptical than I’d expected.
But we’re moving past the fear and loathing stage with 4th generation flash SSDs. The question now: how do new system architectures enabled by flash help me do more with less? Nimble has a pretty good answer to that question.
Courteous comments welcome, of course. I have some free time on Wednesday if anyone would like to chat. And I’ll be hitting the Ryowa ramen house in Mountain View at least once.
You’ve finally sold out, nice job!
Well, I signed up for the webinar, but I still have not received any details on how to actually join the webinar. The .msg calendar entry provided on the page isn’t readable by any calendar or mail client I have installed.
… it would help if I noticed that the meeting was for Thursday and not Tuesday. I’ll await call details more patiently. 🙂