The Doctor Is In

With the recent trend of “leadership” posts on LinkedIn, I thought I’d make an observation given my position in industry standards.

In the aftermath of the previous blog, something incredible, shocking, and amazing happened.

A three week hell ride of emotions, surrounding “positive” news.

Storage Developer Conference activity, new media conversations, Storage Field Day, and many storage blogs in the spotlight.

The AI hype is starting to push the boundaries, memory-expansion SSDs, the effects of ransomware, ginormous capacities, some impressive FMS awards, more M&A drama, and a good friend’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

New AI and HPC Consortium, Hammerspace hits the big time, SSDs vs. HDDs (redux), Kioxia/WD news, Solidigm reaches for 64TB, FMS, SNIA news, and more.

“No new HDDs” still under discussion, a history lesson on AFAs, AI hype exceeds reality, links for education, and watch out for Memory Tiering.

Storage bloggers on a roll, some aggressive announcements and predictions in media, conference season is ramping up, and more webinars than time to watch.

Tape isn’t dead, NFS SSDs, Synology updates, Drive Sanitization, PLC NAND, loads of webinars, CXL, Kioxia and Western Digital, and more.

When you’re going non-stop at work and the time is creeping until it’s out of control, sometimes it takes a catastrophic event to wake you up.

Welcome to conference and webinar season! Lots of information about both, plus CXL, 7-cell NAND, 1PB SSDs, MinIO on the warpath, and data protection.