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This time, it was the top of the crane that fell. The huge pieces smashed into the penthouse of a nearby building and tore off a row of...
NEW YORK — This time, it was the top of the crane that fell. The huge pieces smashed into the penthouse of a nearby building and tore off a row of balconies and plummeted to the street in a shower of bricks, dust and debris. Two men, both workers, were killed.
It was the second time in nearly 11 weeks that a crane tumbled from high above a construction site in New York: On March 15 a crane — its tower, cab and boom — collapsed thunderously to earth, killing seven. After that, a city building inspector was arrested on charges of lying about inspecting the crane.
Friday's accident also was similar to crane collapses in March in Miami and last week near Kansas City, Mo.
The collapse occurred about 8 a.m. at the site of what is planned to be a 32-story building that is to house a middle school and apartments. Witnesses said the boom — the long arm that hoists materials — snapped off its turntable, the platterlike platform that holds the cab for the operator. Then, witnesses said, the cab and the boom flopped to one side.
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They went into free fall, slamming a corner of the 23-story building across the street, shearing off balconies and leaving a trail of pockmarks as they clattered to the street.
"It was like an earthquake," said Tara Hamilton, who lives nearby. "It was really bad, and it felt terrible. I didn't know where to run."
Investigators were looking at whether a bad weld had caused the top of the crane to snap, a city official said, and whether the turntable was one that had recently been repaired after developing a bad crack.
Acting Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri said the 24-year-old crane's model, the Kodiak, is out of production and one of only four in the city. He also suspended all crane operations in the city and called an emergency meeting of experts today.
The accident left New Yorkers worrying about more construction-site problems in a city immersed in a building boom.
Some of that worry turned to anger.
"You would think there would be much stricter safety to make sure this wouldn't happen again," said Brad Barnett, also a neighbor. "I mean, it's insane that this has happened twice."
The dead were identified as Donald Leo, 30, the crane operator, of Staten Island; and Ramadan Kurtaj, 27, of the Bronx, another worker. Kurtaj died after being taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, police said. The two men who were killed were the 14th and 15th people to die in high-rise construction accidents this year.
A third worker was in serious condition with a chest wound, police said. The unidentified man was being treated at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
"What has happened is unacceptable and intolerable," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference.
Still, he said the crane that collapsed Friday had been inspected properly, and he bristled at the notion that there were lingering problems at the Department of Buildings, whose commissioner, Patricia Lancaster, resigned after the March collapse. "I don't think you can say anything's wrong at the [department]," the mayor said.
The city evacuated eight nearby buildings with more than 200 apartments, but by evening, residents had been allowed back into all but one. The building under construction was not damaged.
While crane-related deaths nationwide have dropped 38 percent since 1992, they have increased in New York, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The March collapse occurred while the crane was being raised to a higher level. After that, city officials said they would require inspectors to be on hand at sites when a crane is raised. The Buildings Department ended that policy Wednesday. The mayor said the crane Friday was not being raised.
Scott Stringer, Manhattan borough president, said there had been eight violations at the site since the crane went up April 20 and 21, including one in April for operating a crane in an unsafe manner.
Many who came and went in the shadow of the construction site said that even before Friday, they had worried about another catastrophe like the one in March.
"My boyfriend would always walk by and say, 'Something's going to happen; that looks rickety,' " said Lorene Godlash, who lives in an apartment across the street.
Material from The Washington Post, Newsday and The Associated Press is included in this report.


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Remco's distribution network includes facilities in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, and a integrated cross-Canada transportation network that services every retail location in the country on a regular basis.
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Remco is looking for an experienced, career-minded Inside Sales Representative. We require a positive, team-oriented Inside Sales Representative to set and meet sales goals and to consistently deliver results in accordance with the high standards of the company's defined goals.
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Beware software-defined lock-in
"Avoid vendor lock-in" has been a mantra for a long time by other vendors and marketing promotions. Vendor lock-in is equated to a lack of choices or an impediment to making a change in the future. The lack of choices results in:
• Paying more for the next product or solution
• Failure to keep up with and benefit from new technology
• Reduced support or concern from the vendor in solving a problem.
These may be more fear-mongering from competitive vendors than reality, although there are companies that have demonstrated reprehensible behavior that is generally assigned to have a customer "locked-in."
Recent marketing hype in the information systems and management industry has been focused on using "software-defined something" as a means to avoid vendor lock-in. In this case, they mean lock-in with hardware. Other valuable attributes for the software-defined message are added to the discussion but the most basic argument is the flexibility of using software on generic (general purpose) hardware.
In the case of software-defined storage (which has a wide range of meanings depending on which vendor is talking), the software seeks to take the value out of storage systems. The message is that removing the value of the storage system and using generic hardware and devices will remove vendor lock-in to a particular storage system from a vendor. With the messaging that vendor lock-in is bad and costs more, the software-defined argument builds an affinity value message.
But the real question is: did the lock-in just get moved to somewhere else? Rather than a storage system that is replaceable, albeit with effort to migrate data and change of operational procedures, the lock-in may move to software. In this case, the software determines where to place data. The software has control of all the fragments that are distributed across physical devices. The software in the storage system (embedded software or firmware in an earlier generation lexicon) and software-defined storage are doing relatively the same thing at one level.
If lock-in (as defined earlier) is being moved from a vendor storage system to software, the impacts of lock-in need to be evaluated. One consideration is the long-term financial impact. Software has a support cost – either from a vendor or from the IT staff in the case of open source. Additionally, some software is licensed based on capacity. These changes continue for as long as the software is in use. Storage systems are typically purchased and have a warranty that is often negotiated as part of the sale. It is common to get a four-year or five-year warrant. After that time, there is a maintenance charge. Some of the value-added features of the storage system are separately licensed which may be annualized or capacity-based. This is a competitive area, however, and some vendors include the value-add software for their systems in the base price.
Storage systems have had a consistent price decline over the years, transferring the economics of improving technology and the effect of competition to the customers. Software typically does not have commensurate price reductions. It is seen as an annuity for the vendor for maintaining and updating.
The vendor lock-in message triggers emotion and rapid conclusions that may not represent reality. Deeper analysis is required on specific situations. The value of "compartmentalizing" information handling to allow technology transitions or transformations rather than massive infrastructure change that become inhibitors cannot be discarded in considerations. The vendor lock-in message is not really that simple, and attributing the next new thing as being the answer is not well thought out.
(Randy Kerns is Senior Strategist at Evaluator Group, an IT analyst firm).
Scale-out NAS becoming an enterprise fixture
Enterprise systems with scale-out capability have been making an impact in IT environments and are almost always a consideration in every evaluation of client storage strategies.
Although there are scale-out implementations of block and object storage, NAS has been the primary focus for enterprise scale-out storage deployments. Scale-out products range from the enterprise down to the SMB market. Some high-end scale-out NAS systems such as EMC Isilon and Hitachi Data Systems HNAS have made a transition from high performance computing (HPC) to enterprise IT.
Benefits of using scale-out NAS include:
• Performance scales in parallel with capacity so increases in capacity do not cause performance impacts requiring additional administrative effort to diagnose and correct.
• The continued increase in unstructured data can be addressed without a single administrative system without increasing administrative efforts and costs.
• New technology elements can be introduced and older ones retired without having to offload and reload data.
Not all NAS systems offered today are scale out. Traditional dual-node controller NAS systems still fit many customer needs, and are usually kept as separate platforms than scale-out systems. It is easier to design a new scale-out NAS system than to adapt an existing design and maintain the high-value features, although NetApp has shown that new technology can be introduced and adapted with its Clustered Data ONTAP systems.
A common approach to scale-out NAS is to take a distributed file system used in HPC and research environments. Considering the success vendors are having with their scale-out NAS offerings, it would seem to be inevitable that a majority of enterprise NAS systems will be multi-node, scale-out systems.
Vendors have several terms for scale-out NAS and scale-out storage in general. A look at some of the vendor product offering sees the terms clustered NAS, federated systems, and distributed systems. These are mostly vendor marketing aimed at creating a unique identification for their products. They are more likely to create confusion.
While scale-out block storage may be more difficult to implement because of the host interface connection and greater latency demands than NAS, the implementations provide the same value to IT customers. The measure is the number of nodes in the system and how the nodes are organized such as in pairs or an N+1 protection arrangement.
Scale-out NAS and scale-out storage in general is becoming prevalent because of the value. Vendors will continue to develop products that meet customer needs and more scale-out systems should be expected.
(Randy Kerns is Senior Strategist at Evaluator Group, an IT analyst firm).
NetApp CEO: We invented software-defined storage
Software-defined storage is gaining a lot of attention these days, especially after EMC revealed plans for ViPR at EMC World earlier this month. Now EMC rival NetApp is taking credit for being a "pioneer" of the technology long before anybody from EMC or any other storage vendor used the team.
During NetApp's earnings call with analysts Tuesday, CEO Tom Georgens cited the storage virtualization capability of the Data Ontap operating system as a prime example of software-defined storage. NetApp V-Series gateways can virtualize storage arrays from other major vendors.
"NetApp pioneered this value proposition with our Data OnTap operating system," Georgens said. "For the last decade, we've been able to run OnTap on our hardware and other people's hardware through V-Series."
Georgens listed the ability to run OnTap in private clouds with Amazon Web Services and as a virtual machine in OnTap Edge as other examples of software-defined storage.
"This concept has been coined software-defined storage … only NetApp can deliver on the promise of software-defined storage today," he said.
NetApp representatives have been making similar claims since EMC announced its ViPR software-defined storage offering at EMC World earlier this month. Because the definition of software-defined storage varies according to who's defining it, Georgens offered his definition: flexible storage resources that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware and provisioned and consumed based on policy directly by the application and development teams."
Clustered OnTap, more than a decade in development after NetApp acquired clustered technology from Spinnaker, is part of NetApp's software-defined storage story. Georgens said NetApp has almost 1,000 clustered customers.
Georgens also proclaimed NetApp a flash leader. He said NetApp has shipped 44 petabytes of flash in its arrays. However, its FlashRay all-flash array remains a roadmap item while others have had all-flash systems on the market for at least a year.
NetApp has two convince two sets of people that it is a technology innovator – customers and investors.
As cutomers go, NetApp's revenue of $1.72 billion last quarter increased one percent from the same quarter last year and five percent over the previous quarter. That's not bad, considering several large competitors said their sales slipped from last year, but not exactly a home run.
NetApp has struggled to keep investors happy. To make amends, NetApp announced a 900-person layoff, a quarterly dividend of 15 cents a share and a $1.6 billion increase in its stock repurchase program that brings the total to $3 billion. The moves came after a Bloomberg story claimed Elliott Management Corp. – which owns 16 million NetApp shares – called for NetApp to changes its board and take steps to boost shareholder value. One of Elliott's concerns was that NetApp's technology hasn't kept up with its rivals.
That puts Georgens in the position of announcing layoffs while pledging to be a tech leader.
"Last week was a difficult one for employees," he said of the layoffs. "We are faced with the challenge of continuing to execute against our growth strategy while achieving our business and financial objectives in the context of a low-growth IT spending environment."
His juggling act will be interesting to watch in the coming months.
Brocade still bullish on Fibre Channel, despite sales plunge
Brocade executives said they expect the Fibre Channel (FC) SAN slump to be temporary and predict a rebound in the second half of the year.
As Brocade announced earlier this month, its FC SAN switching last quarter was lower than its previous forecast. It came in at $319 million, down seven percent from last year and down 12 percent from the previous quarter. Brocade executives said on their earnings call last night the slowdown was due to lower than expected storage sales from its OEM partners, such as EMC, IBM and Dell.
"We were disappointed in our SAN sales due to short-term slowing in the storage market," Brocade CEO Lloyd Carney said.
The SAN business doesn't look much better this quarter, as Brocade expects it to decline from eight percent to 11 percent from last quarter. "Demand signals for storage remains soft," Brocade CFO Dan Fairfax said.
Carney added that Brocade's storage partners expect sales to rebound in the second half of the year, and the company remains optimistic about Fibre Channel.
"We fully believe at the end of the year, the SAN business will rebound," he said.
Carney said Brocade plans to cut $100 million in spending over the next year, and some projects will be discontinued. But he said Brocade will remain focused on FC SANs, Ethernet networking and the emerging software-defined networking markets.
"We believe that the fundamentals of the SAN market are strong, including storage growth related to virtualization, cloud and unstructured data," Carney said.
Jason Nolet, VP of Brocade's data center networking group, said the factors favoring FC include the rise of flash in network storage.
"Flash needs a network that is a very low latency, very high IOPS, very high bandwidth, and Fibre Channel is the perfect match for that," he said. "That's why you see all the flash vendors, whether they are startups or established vendors, with Fibre Channel connectivity on their flash arrays. So we think the fundamentals in the storage industry and the basic requirements for customers continue to favor Fibre Channel. So we're bullish for that reason."
Nolet said he was certain that slow FC sales were not due to customers converting to converged Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks in place of FC.
"The customer base has largely spoken, and end-to-end convergence on a technology like FCoE is not on their agenda," he said. "We see a little bit of convergence from the server to the first hop in the network, and then Fibre Channel gets broken out natively and Ethernet natively as well. But this [revenue decline] is not a function of FCoE growth."
Brocade reported most of its SAN revenue last quarter came from 16-Gbps FC, which it has been selling for a year.
Nolet said Cisco's recent rollout of 16-Gbps FC products underscores the importance of FC, but he dismissed the Cisco devices as "largely focused on speeds and feeds and lacking the innovation that we delivered" when Brocade first went to 16-gig.
Atlantis gains $20 million to spread more ILIO
Atlantis Computing closed a $20 million funding round this week, and will put a chunk of that money into bringing out a new storage management application for virtual infrastructures.
Atlantis' previous funding round was $10 million in 2010. In the three years since, the company has had enough profitable quarters and made enough revenue from its Atlantis ILIO applications to survive, CEO Bernard Harguindeguy said.
"This round is about building up our cash reserves to build out our product line," he said.
Atlantis claims it has more than 250 customers and more than 300,000 licenses sold for its software, which includes ILIO Diskless VDI, ILIO Persistent VDI and ILIO XenApp. The VDI products enable virtual desktops to run in-memory without storage, and the XenApp product does the same for virtual servers.
Atlantis has already announced but not yet delivered ILIO FlexCloud designed to enable applications to run in the cloud with little or no storage.
Harguindeguy said the next Atlantis application will do similar things for virtualized databases such as SQL Server and SharePoint. "They consume enormous amounts of storage," he said. "We're using the same foundation we have out there already."
That product is expected in the fourth quarter of 2013.
New investor Adams Street Partners led Atlantis' new funding round, with previous investors Cisco Systems, El Dorado Ventures and Partech International participating.
New Cleversafe CEO aims at holes in storage status quo
Object storage startup Cleversafe switched CEOs today. Founder Chris Gladwin gives up the CEO post and becomes vice chairman while continuing to set Cleversafe's technical vision. John Morris moves into the CEO job after spending four years at Juniper Networks as EVP of field operations and strategic alliances, three years with Pay By Touch as COO and then CEO, and 23 years with IBM.
Chicago-based Cleversafe is among a group of object-based storage startups – a group that also includes Scality, Amplidata, Caringo and Exablox – looking to crack the market while the major vendors rev up their own object platforms to handle petabyte and perhaps exabyte data stores that push the limits of RAID.
Morris spoke with Storage Soup today to outline his plans for Cleversafe.
What brought you to Cleversafe?
Morris: As I left Juniper, I wanted a chance to lead a company. One of the spaces I was looking at in technology was storage, where I think there is a lot of status quo ready to be challenged. I had heard of Cleversafe and followed it a little bit in the local Chicago media. I'm a Chicago guy anyway, and as I got more into learning about the company from Chris Gladwin and [chairman] Chris Galvin and the other board members, it seems to me it's a great combination of technology that's ready and accepted by customers, and momentum that is building dramatically.
It's a great time for me to come in and join the company and bring a depth of experience in scaling businesses to match up with the company's great technology.
Chris Gladwin is staying with the company, so it seems like Cleversafe won't be going in a completely new direction with the change. Is this a signal that Cleversafe is moving into a new business phase, and why was the change made now?
Morris: I have to be careful not to disturb the phase we're in now. We brought in a million dollar order last week. We have a couple of other strategic big orders that we expect to bring in this week. The company is on a tear with customer momentum building, but we also want to make sure that we're growing in a way that is sustainable and allows us to scale to the heights we want. And that's where I'm going to be helping to bring in approaches we take to not just have a great few quarters but to have many great years.
How many customers does Cleversafe have?
Morris: We have dozens of customers, that's as specific as we'll get. But we're growing every week.
What's your biggest challenge in this job?
Morris: We're attacking an entrenched status quo of big entrenched competitors. In reality, there's a lot of square peg for a round hole because the kind of data that we're great at storing is not very well attacked by the status quo technology, in particular the RAID technology out there. So the biggest challenge is making sure the customers understand there's an alternative out there that gives them better reliability and scalability at a lower cost. As a small company, it's hard to make yourself known out there so that's probably the biggest challenge I have now.
What's the headcount at Cleversafe?
Morris: A little over 100. We're definitely growing.
Who do you consider the major competitors in the object storage market?
Morris: The dominant players out there – EMC, HP, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems – those are the guys dominating market place and the competitors we think about. They're throwing the wrong tool at the problem. We think we have a much better tool. Those are the guys I wake up thinking about.
We think we have a much better alternative for the fastest growing part of their market, which is the unstructured data around video and photos and audio and image files, and that sort of thing.
What about some of your fellow startups who sell object storage?
Morris: We've shipped more object oriented storage than anybody, by a long shot. Certainly more than the smaller players out there.
When was your last funding round?
Morris: In 2010 we raised $31 million in our C round. We're in a fortunate position, we have investors who like what we're doing and are anxious to help us do more. So fundraising as a big challenge is not something I come in having to face.
Does that mean you're close to profitability?
Morris: One of the fun things for me about moving into a private company is [laughs], we have an easy answer to that question, which is we're not releasing any type of financial data around revenue.
Object storage seems to be a big piece of the ViPR software EMC announced last week. Do you expect to see more focus on object storage from the big vendors?
Morris: One of the hardest things that we had to try to do when I was at IBM for a couple of decades was eat our own children. And I'm counting on our large competitors having the same sort of trepidation. While they have offerings in this space, I think they continue to lead with what drives a lot of profit in their current business and that's an opportunity for us.
EMC World wrap-up: Isilon, VNX, Syncplicity future directions
LAS VEGAS – EMC World was short on product upgrades this year with the exception of the new ViPR platform, but the vendor did enhance a few products while previewing features expected soon in others:
Isilon's OneFS operating system added post-process block-level deduplication, native Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) 2.0 support, a REST Object Access to Namespace interface for data access and support for OpenStack Swift and Cinder integration. The dedupe will be included in the next version of OneFS due later this year, and the other features are available now.
During a session on Isilon during the show, Isilon director of product management Nick Kirsch laid out strategic initiatives for the clustered NAS platform.
Isilon is working on using flash to increase performance in several ways, including putting file system metadata on flash and using flash as a read cache first and eventually as a write cache. Kirsch also said Isilon will add support for commodity consumer drives as a low-cost tier.
"If you're going to deploy an exabyte of data, there has to be a step change in price," he said.
Kirsch said Isilon is working on a software-only version of OneFS, and will support moving data to the cloud and using the cloud as a "peering mechanism" to connect to multiple clouds.
No timetable was given for availability of these future features.
Rich Napolitano, president of EMC's unified storage division, previewed future features for VNX arrays. These included a flash-optimized controller, a VNX app store that would allow customers to run applications such as a virtual RecoverPoint appliance directly on a VNX array and a virtual VNX array that can run on commodity hardware or in the cloud.
A year after buying file sharing vendor Syncplicity, EMC added a policy-based hybrid cloud capability that lets customers use private and public clouds simultaneously.
Customers can set policies by folders or by users to determine where content will reside. For example, legal documents from users can stay on on-premise storage while less sensitive data can go out to a public cloud. Files that require heavy collaboration such as engineering documents can be spread across multiple sites and have geo-replication features so uses can always access them locally.
EMC also added Syncplicity support for its VNX unified storage arrays, following on the support it gave EMC's Isilon and Atmos storage platforms in January. Syncplicity will also support EMC's ViPR software-defined storage platform when that becomes available later this year.
"Our strategy is to provide ultimate choice for storage backends," said Jeetu Patel, VP of the EMC Syncplicity business unit. "So you can expect to be able to run Syncplicity on non-EMC platforms over time."
Data Protection Suite
EMC's backup and recovery group launched the Data Protection Suite, which consists of no new products but is a new way to package products such as Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker, Data Protection Advisor and SourceOne. Customers can purchase backup and archiving products together with licenses based on consumption and deployment models.
Fusion-io's new CEO addresses 'misconceptions'
One day after a surprising CEO shakeup, the new boss of PCIe flash leader Fusion-io denied the change came because of a failure of the outgoing chief, problems at the company or because it is looking for a buyer.
Shane Robison, a former long-time Hewlett-Packard executive who replaced Fusion-io CEO David Flynn Wednesday, made a statement and took questions during a technology webcast hosted by the vendor.
Fusion-io said that founders Flynn and chief marketing officer Rick White resigned their positions to pursue investing opportunities. The company said Flynn and White will remain on the board and serve in advisory roles for the next year.
The news was poorly received by investors, as Fusion-io's stock price fell 19% to $14.60 by the end of Wednesday. It dropped slightly to $14.23 today.
There has been speculation that Flynn was pushed out because Fusion-io's revenue declined last quarter following a pause in spending by its two largest customers, Apple and Facebook. It didn't help that Fusion-io's stock already dropped to $17.47 from a high of $39.60 in late 2011 before Wednesday. While at HP, Robison worked on its acquisitions of Compaq, Mercury Interactive, Opsware, EDS, 3Com and Autonomy – leading to speculation that he was brought in to sell Fusion-io.
Robison began his webcast today by saying he wanted to "hopefully clear up some misconceptions."
He said the move was discussed for "a long time" even if there was no public indication that Flynn would leave. He said the previous leadership team did a great job taking Fusion-io from startup to successful public company but its focus has shifted. The goals now are to move into international markets and make sure it releases quality products on time.
"It's not unusual as startups evolve to medium-size companies that you need different skill sets as you go through these cycles," he said.
Robison said Fusion-io did not reveal the CEO change when it reported earnings two weeks ago because the decision was not completed yet.
"Unfortunately, it was a surprise," Robison said. "And nobody – especially the street – likes surprises. This caused a lot of speculation. A lot of times when these changes happen it's because there is a problem with the company. I can tell you there is not a problem with the company. The company's doing very well.
"The company has built a lead, and we need to maintain that lead and invest in R&D and in some cases, M&A."
Robison said another misconception was that the board "brought me in to dress the company up and sell it. We're not working on that. This was a decision that was about how we get experienced management in place to take the company to the next level."
Robison has never been a CEO in his more than 30 years in the IT business. Besides serving as HP's executive vice president and chief strategy officer from 2002-2011, he also worked for AT&T and Apple. He was blamed by other members of the HP board for not realizing that Autonomy did not have as much revenue that it claimed (a charge that Autonomy leaders have denied) before HP agreed to pay $11.3 billion to acquire it in 2011.
Robison did not discuss the Autonomy deal today. He defended his qualifications by saying that some of the business units that he has run inside of large companies were as big as Fusion-io.
He said his strength is his operational experience and Fusion-io needs to balance good operations with innovative technology.
The move comes as Fusion-io faces greater competition after having the PCIe flash market mostly to itself over its first few years. Intel, Micron, Virident, LSI, STEC, OCZ and Violin Memory have PCIe cards.
Storage giant EMC sells cards from Virident and Micron under OEM deals as its XtremSF brand, and its marketing concentrates on claims that those cards are superior to Fusion-io's. EMC executives at EMC World this week also revealed plans to bring out MCx flash-optimized controllers for hybrid storage arrays and it has an XtremIO flash array that competes with the NexGen storage systems that Fusion-io acquired last month.
Robison said he spent time Wednesday with key large customers, and their reaction to the news was positive.
Others are wondering if the deal will lead to more changes.
"Surprise management changes usually portend more news in the following days and weeks," Storage Strategies Now analyst James Bagley wrote in a note today. "As we have reported over the last year, we felt that Fusion-io had a tough future ahead with increasing competitors in its core market. Its recent acquisition of NexGen, a storage array manufacturer and Fusion-io customer, is a good move into a broader market where Fusion's deep software expertise and larger resources should help revenue expansion."
Objective Analysis analyst Jim Handy also published a note on the change, maintaining "Fusion-io is in an enviable position" because the company was the first to introduce a PCIe SSD, and early with caching software and the ability to make SSDs appear in memory in virtualized systems.
"This resulted in the company's competitors always remaining one or two steps behind in their efforts to compete," Handy added. "It would appear that the two key architects of this strategy have now moved on, so outsiders should carefully watch to see if the underlying strategy, the one that has served the company so well in the past, will continue to be followed, or if a new path will be tried.""
Keeping all data is a dangerous policy
There is a prevalent problem in Information Technology today – too much data.
Most of the data is in the form of files and called unstructured data. Unstructured data continues to increase at rates that average around 60% per year according to most of our IT clients.
Structured data is generally thought of as information in databases and this type of data is experiencing a much smaller increase in size than unstructured data. The unstructured data is produced internal to IT and from external sources. The external sources include sensor data, video information, and social media data. This type of growing data is alarming because there are so many sources and the information is used in data analytics that typically originate outside of IT.
The big issue is what to do with all that data that is being created. The data is stored while needed, which is during the processing for applications or analytics and while it may be required for reference, further processing, or the inevitable "re-run" in some cases. But what is to be done with the data later? Later in this case means when the probability of access drops to the point that it is unlikely to be accessed again. There is also cases when the processing is complete (or project is complete) and the data is to be "put on the shelf" much as we would in closing the books on some operation. Does the data still have value as new applications or potential usages develop? Will there be a potential legal case that will require the data to be produced?
The default decision for most operations is to save everything forever. This decision is usually made because there is no policy around the data. IT operations do not set the policies for data deletion. Because the different types of data have different value and the value changes over time, the business owners or data owners must set the policy. IT professionals generally understand the value but usually are not empowered to make those policy decisions. Sometimes the legal staff sets the policy, which absolves IT of the responsibility, but that may not be the best option. In a few companies, a blanket policy is used to delete data after a specific amount of time. This may not withstand a legal challenge in some liability cases.
Saving all the data has compounding cost issues. It requires buying more storage, adding products to migrate data to less expensive storage, and increasing operational expenses for managing the information, power, cooling, and space. Moving the data to a cloud storage location has some economic benefit, but that may be short-sighted. The charges for data that does not go away continue to compound. Storing data outside the immediate concern of IT staff takes away from the imperative to make a decision about what to do with it.
Besides the costs of storing and managing the data, the danger is that there may be some legal liability for keeping data for a long time. The potential for an adverse settlement based on old data is there and has been proven extremely costly. More impacting to IT operations is the discovery and legal hold required. Discovery requires searching through all the data, including backups, for requested information and legal hold means no deletions of almost anything – no recycling of backups. This causes even more operational expense.
Not establishing a deletion policy that can pass a legal challenge is a failing of a company and results in additional expense and liability. IT may the first responders on the retain-forever policy, but it is a company issue.
(Randy Kerns is Senior Strategist at Evaluator Group, an IT analyst firm).
EMC rivals' venomous reactions to ViPR
LAS VEGAS — Hitachi Data Systems and NetApp wasted little time sending reviews of EMC's new ViPR software. Both sent e-mails panning EMC's attempt at software-defined storage.
You obviously woudn't expect EMC's competitors to have good things to say about ViPR, especially competitors who also offer storage virtualization. But after hearing EMC bang the drums about it this week at EMC World, let's listen to other opinions:
"ViPR is essentially a YASRM — Yet Another Storage Resource Manager," wrote Sean Moser, HDS VP of software platforms product management. "Another bite at the apple for EMC after the failure of Invista and its ancestors. In ViPR terms they call this function a control plane – an attempt to provide a single management framework across all EMC storage platforms, and eventually across third party storage as well."
He called the attempt to provide a management platform across third-party storage "a pipe dream as there's no motivation for third-parties to write to your SRM API to allow their products to be nicely managed by a tool not of their own making. So part one of ViPR is to create an SRM tool that allows clients to use enterprise storage much as they would Amazon — a set of software APIs that abstract the detail of the underlying storage, presenting Storage as a Service. While conceptually a good idea, it will be impossible to really do outside of EMC storage.
"The other key function with ViPR is storage virtualization; the long sought storage hypervisor. However, even for EMC's own storage platforms (at least in version 1.0), ViPR only allows control plane (i.e. management functions) for file and block. The only data plane support is for object-based storage. So for now, it's just a new Atmos front-end that adds an SRM management layer for block and file."
Moster maintains that the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) had the support for file, block and object that EMC claims ViPR will have. "Further, there's no gymnastics required to make this happen – you get it straight out of the box," he added.
Brendon Howe, NetApp vice president of product and solutions marketing, wrote that the software-defined storage concept is a good one. But, he added, NetApp does it better in its Clustered Data OnTap operating system.
"NetApp provides this capability with our with open and flexible Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) technology in Clustered Data OnTap," Howe wrote. "[NetApp provides] hardware independence spanning NetApp optimized to commodity hardware to the cloud with Amazon Web Services. Combining the best set of software-enabled data services with programmable APIs and the broadest set of integrations is precisely how Data ONTAP became the most deployed storage operating system."
Well, you didn't expect EMC's claim of being the first to provide software-defined storage to go unchallenged, did you?


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March 7, 2013
Why We Dislike Battlefield 3
DICE Entertainment has finally released End Game, the fifth and final installment of the expansion series for Battlefield 3 on PS3. It doesn't really surprise me that they've decided to release the best of the bunch for last (DICE often does what I don't want them to do), but here we go again as I prepare to fire up my PC for a little first person action.
I've had mixed feelings about Battlefield 3 as the years have gone by. Of course, I've had the same feelings about any other shooter that I've played. We can't pretend that we've never raged in Halo or Gears of War. Like RPG buffs and RTS fans, I've grown very sick of Battlefield's antics after five years, and I'm not the only one; the gaming world is also harbors anger toward Epic Games and Electronic Arts for the same weak and bland experiences. The feeling isn't brand new, but dear God do I wish that I didn't have to feel this way about such a polished game.
In the Beginning
I started my journey with Battlefield: Bad Company along with the promise of intense military style action. I suppose my root desire for the game was to have "My Own" shooter: Everyone around me had Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War, or Lost Planet. Each of them were good at their respective games, and I wanted so very badly to be a part of the group-boasting about experiences that I'd never had before.
In the saddest state of circumstances, I still haven't.
That same naivety hasn't subsided even at the age of 20, but at least now I can make an accurate theory on why this game has caused me such grief.
The Premise
The goal is obvious; kill your enemy. (Not so much a conditioning of gamers as it is an overused premise.)
They drop you on a map with up to 15 others along with a few guns and large scale vehicles, paint you different colors as the other team, and set the game's rules in your favor of victory as long as you defeat them within the allotted amount of time. All games have done this, but what tarnishes the integrity of the multiplayer is that you often feel that you never really had a chance to begin with.
Team-based combat is imperative to any victory in Battlefield 3; if you're on your own, you'll more than likely fail miserably in your match. For millions of Battlefield fans, this is a requirement that is heavily regarded and glorified. But to the thousands that are only beginning to pick up the game for the first time, it's a hindering element that prevents any real accomplishment. DICE put no true support towards a social network for players to interact
The Truth
When your interest in the color swatches of the walls diminishes, when your fascination with the fire rate of every gun subsides, and when you find that the enemy has no respect for your enjoyment of the game, the true conditioning begins.
Battlefield 3 is a hunt; a quest to find your dominance in kill-streaks and gun medals. The enjoyment becomes a goal-your time becomes a grind.
But then again, every shooter is doing this nowadays. Is Battlefield really so bad?
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Mark A. Brown, 50, of the 9800 block of S.E. 18th Circle in Vancouver was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of two counts of dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct and 10 counts of possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
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A new service called Retrievr, which uses the Flickr photo database and an experimental new technology, gives you a novel new way of searching for all those holiday pictures you've been uploading in batches to share with family and friends. Retrievr enables you to search for images by entering a rough sketch. So far, the technology is a bit rough -- quickly sketch a black car and you're more likely to get black and white portraits of people than a Peugeot. Still, the so-called Multiresolution Image Querying yields interesting results, and this is one of the cooler uses of Flickr we've yet seen.
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An actress Natasha Richardson passed away today after a sking accident where she hit her head yet managed to walk away. There's now discussion on whether a helmet could have saved her life. Here's what Time Magazine said.
>>>>>The fact that Richardson was not wearing a helmet may or may not have made a difference in the gravity of her injury. If skiers are moving slowly say 10 m.p.h. or slower and they fall on soft snow, they're probably not going to be hurt severely, whether they're wearing a helmet or not. If they're moving faster than 15 or 20 m.p.h. and strike ice, hard-packed snow or another solid object with the head, they're likely to suffer severe injury, and again the presence of a helmet may not make much difference. It's in the middle area at speeds that are neither very slow nor very fast that a helmet can play the biggest role. The trick, of course, is that you never know when you're going to be in that gray zone, since even slow beginner skiers can lose control and speed up, and high-speed skiers have to slow down eventually.<<<<<
I find this interesting because it means that a helmet does work well in low and medium speed accidents below 15 or 20 m.p.h. Regardless, I wasn't wearing my helmet all winter long but after this accident, it's back on again.
>>>>Association of Quebec Emergency Room Doctors made the request earlier this year, claiming that 60 per cent of head traumas could have been avoided by wearing a helmet while performing winter sports. Helmets are already mandatory for any skiers and snowboarders that use snow parks or take part in downhill races in the province.<<<


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Do 50+'rs Patch Your Tubes?
How many of you repair your own tubes?
I am sitting here patching 3 tubes zapped by goatheads, and I was just wondering if anyone else does?
Do 50+'rs Patch Your Tubes?
How many of you repair your own tubes?
I am sitting here patching 3 tubes zapped by goatheads, and I was just wondering if anyone else does?
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If it rains on a day that I normally ride (perhaps 1 day out of the year here in LA) I would instead spend a couple of hours patching all the punctured tubes I've accumulated during the year.
Of course. The average hole in a tire represents what percent of the surface area of the tire? I'd feel so stupid if I didn't patch.
I patch the tires on site. Its a break from my riding.
Sure do.....untill there are too many patches and the tube gets replaced.
By my standards, 3 or 4 patches are the limit after which I decide that the tube has been abused enough by going flat and needs to be replaced. 2nd, patches should never overlap.
But then I haven't had a flat outside of my shop in about 3 years.
1. If it's a leak at the valve, I don't patch it.
2. If it's a blow-out (huge hole!) I don't patch it.
3. If it's slow-leak and I can't find the hole, I don't patch it.
4. If it's been patched 4 times (or more) already, I don't patch it.
Otherwise, yes, I patch tubes. I prefer Rema patchs but I find that any old rubber cement works just fine.
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Even I have patched two tubes this year. But I haven't reused either of them yet.
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Only if I get 2 flats on one ride...the first flat gets fixed with a new tube that I carry in my seat bag.
On the extremely rare times when I get a second flat during the ride, I use a Park Glueless patch. This happens about once every 2 or 3 years.
I don't even carry a spare tube with me. I've never ripped the valve stem out, and I've never had a blowout so bad that I couldn't fix it with a standard patch or two.
I voted "something else" -- which means I don't patch 'em if I can get someone else to do it for me.
Otherwise, no.
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[QUOTE=BlazingPedals;5737562]I don't even carry a spare tube with me. I've never ripped the valve stem out, and I've never had a blowout so bad that I couldn't fix it with a standard patch or two.[/QUOTE]
I'm curious. How would one use two patches to fix one leak (or "blowout")?
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Always carry a patch kit alongside the spare tube and I always patch as I go. The spare tube is emergencies only. The only time I had to use that and I found that it had 6 patches on it so got home and bought 6 tubes to replace the Patched ones in the wheels. Used four of them so far as I reckon that 6 patches is enough on one tube. Counted 8 one one tube so about time they got replaced.
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For some weird reason patching a tube is very therapeutic for me. Perhaps that is because it involves glue sniffing.
But seriously, I never throw away a tube unless it's beyond repair. It just makes sense.
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I know this is so wasteful and I have good intentions but I never patch. I always use a new tube. I have lots of "need to be patched" tubes just waiting on me in the garage. They just sit there and mock me!
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I do patch tubes but I don't get the chance very often. I seem to get 2 to 3 years or about 6,000 miles between flats.
Notwithstanding the thrill I get from patching these things that takes me back to my full-time commuting days of yore, these days I'll keep a tube in service for no more than two years, patches and all. After that they find duty about the house and shop. "Back then", I'd have as many as six patches.
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I do feel bad about not patching. I know this gentleman, Rick you probably know him, Norm Moyer, who prides himself on his frugalness. His bike is literally a piece of sh**, the tires bald and the tubes have since been tubes and now are connecting patches. He got so excited when I offered up my old tubes but sadly his bike is schrader. I'm starting a collect others old tubes so Norm can use them fund. Please let me know if you are interested!
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I tend to buy tubes in those 10 for $15 deals. All of my rides are with groups so I always just replace the tube when I flat ... even carry 2 tubes and patches for really bad rides or to help those unprepared. When I accumulate a bunch of tubes with holes I will have a patch-a-thon.
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Time: 18h00
Cost: R20
Venue: The Hyatt Regency Oubaai Golf Resort and Spa, Herolds Bay
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