Peter Selin

Well, since I live in the clouds (American Airlines seat “x”) and work in the clouds (Cloud computing/cloud storage, etc), it’s about time that I finally join the blogosphere cloud and post. Those that know me, know that I am seldom short for words, here, they can stop listening whenever they want, a blessing I am sure (the operative assumption that it is being read at all). Thanks to Tommy T. and that bloody Twix commercial, I am now “published”. Hopefully I will be able to post something that has some “merit” and this will more than likely just be an avenue for me to preview my thoughts prior to putting them in a presentation. Thanks – after a week in our corporate National Sales Meeting to kick off the year, I have to at least throw a thanks out to those I respect so much and the reason I am still at Xiotech, other than the fact that I love it here: Thanks Roger,... (more)

Xiotech Nerdfest 2010, day 2

Xiotech Nerdfest 2010 The first day of Nerdfest discussed all the history of ISE (the game changing storage element which is the child of the storage rockstars at Xiotech), the day closed with pots and pots of green chili made by Steve Sicola (CTO, Xiotech), awesome chili and needless to say there was plenty of heartburn later that evening. There was a great futures discussion with Jim McDonald (CSO, Xiotech), Steve, Brian Reagan (SVP Marketing, Xiotech) and others, while the mass quantities of chili were consumed (brownies needed to tame the heat, btw, hot is HOT). The future ... (more)

Storage Anarchy?

I posted this a while back, but, caused some flack as to much leaked out at the time..so, pulled it 5 minutes later. Here it is again, bigger and better. With all the advances in systems, applications, connectivity, you see a plethora of posts out there about how storage has not kept pace. In defense, storage has kept pace, but in a different fashion than applications, systems, or the connectivity. Storage has focused on getting more into a smaller space, while that is good at first blush, it does not address the fact that you need more and more performance out of what you just ma... (more)

Changing Economy of Storage?

After listening to the Wikibon discussion on FCoE yesterday, it really spurred me to piece together a number of things that have been posted as of late relating to storage access and the economies of storage. I have been in the storage business for longer than I care to discuss, but, it has always revolved around the economies ($ per something, that something usually being capacity), with the economies of reality trailing the actual sale…and subsequently requiring further purchases (or in the cae of a generous vendor, free stuff….that usually doesn’t happen unless it’s t-shirts,... (more)

Data Progression? Extents of tiering?

After reading Jon Toigo’s blog this weekend, I had to add on in more than a “comment”, as a follow on to the response from a Compellent “architect”. Jon was addressing, in “Tears of Storage”, a point that is in great controversy in the storage industry and is being blog’ed about constantly (@storagetexan, @storagewonk, @xiotech, to mention a few), that is storage controller comparison and “features” that vendors offer. The “architect’s” response was from a giddy brain washed user perspective, and that is, “this is really cool and everyone should have it!”.    The reality of Dat... (more)