StorageExpo: Olympia 14-15 October 2009

Well it’s that time of year again and StorageExpo starts tomorrow at Olympia, London It should be fun – all the usual suspects are there and there will no doubt be some interesting new stuff to look at and hear about.

Scott McNealy gave the opening keynote at Oracle World in San Francisco earlier this week and highlighted the top 10 innovations from Sun. Storage is in the list several times including NFS/PC-NFS & ZFS/OpenStorage. If you were then to include the number of storage management applications built using Java then the list would be endless.

I first used Java more than 13 years ago to build a client for, what was then, OpenVision NetBackup (now Symantec NetBackup). The big benefit was that you could run it on all platforms (ok, so back then there were a few nuances, but the idea was amazing). Subsequently it was used for the front-end for all the VERITAS / Symantec enterprise backup, storage and high-availability products… along with everyone else in the industry. When you go to StorageExpo, take a look around at the applications running on the screens and make a note of how many require Java to work.

See you at Olympia.

Guy Bunker

October 13, 2009 | Filed Under Availability, Storage, announcements, backup | Leave a Comment 

Out And About

Well the Vision conference was a great success with lots of customers and partners to talk techie with, and of course we made the great announcement to acquire MessageLabs, which is really going to accelerate our software as a service offerings.

Anyway… next week I am out and about in public again(!), I’ll be at the Intellect meeting on Monday 13th October. We will be discussing “Securing Intellectual Property in the Networked Economy” which should prove to be fun.

On Thursday 16th October, I will be presenting at StorageExpo in London, with the session title of “Storage = Data = Risk: Technologies for Data Loss Prevention”. The interesting thing about StorageExpo is how it has morphed over the last couple of years such that it is now all about the information and its security and manageability rather than just being about the latest and greatest hardware.

If you’re there, then come and say hello.

Intellect StorageExpo

 

October 9, 2008 | Filed Under Speaking, announcements | Leave a Comment