October 11, 2009
Infosmack Episode 23 - Beyond RAID. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Geoff Barrall, CEO and Founder of Data Robotics, and Chris Fricke, Senior IT Administrator at Clacamus County. This week’s topics include a discussion about the Data Robotics Drobo, how the new FTC rules might impact storage bloggers, speculation about NetApp and the upcoming Storage Networking World.
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written by ChrisFricke, October 12, 2009
Technical difficulties forced me to miss talking with Geoff, which was unfortunate cause I wanted to talk to him about RAID and the future of it vs "Beyond RAID". Basically trying to join the podcast from work was an epic failure. Also, we're looking at a Drobo Pro for use by our video editor for the local government cable channel. It would be isolated in his little chamber of toys. Clearly for "beyond RAID" to really establish credibility in the data center they need to move well beyond the Drobo Pro. Their core technology, currently delivered for the home office - when transitioned into the enterprise - falls right in line (in a way) with one of my favorite storage topics: self healing storage. It'll take a lot more than that, though, to really upset the market place. Now if they built a scalable "Drobo Mega" cluster with built in TP, dedupe, snaps and replication then we have something to talk about 
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written by wcpreston, October 13, 2009
If a blogger is being paid to blog or being given free product to blog about, that this blog qualifies as advertising and that it should be subject to the same rules of advertising. IOW, you can't make claims that aren't true, etc.
Agreed that this wasn't aimed at the storage industry. It was more about other industries that hire bloggers or give them free stuff and free reign hoping that they'll say stuff that's stronger than they're allowed to say. The FTC is saying that if you're being paid to blog then you're advertising and you can't say stuff that an advertiser can't say. And if a company consistently hires you to do just that, then the FTC can come after them and you (although more likely they'll go after them).
I don't see that same thing happening in this industry. Most analysts that are paid to write say they're paid to write. But there are a few out there that flat out lie that they're paid by vendors to write about those vendors, and those people need to come clean.
Agreed that this wasn't aimed at the storage industry. It was more about other industries that hire bloggers or give them free stuff and free reign hoping that they'll say stuff that's stronger than they're allowed to say. The FTC is saying that if you're being paid to blog then you're advertising and you can't say stuff that an advertiser can't say. And if a company consistently hires you to do just that, then the FTC can come after them and you (although more likely they'll go after them).
I don't see that same thing happening in this industry. Most analysts that are paid to write say they're paid to write. But there are a few out there that flat out lie that they're paid by vendors to write about those vendors, and those people need to come clean.
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