Storage Monkeys

I would nominate:

Chuck Hollis
Marc Farley
Mark Twomey

I'm adding Dave Graham's blog (EMC) - http://flickerdown.com/

I'm nominating Barry Whyte , bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

I'm not shy - I nominate the storage anarchist (EMC).

I was going to nominate the anarchist, this place wouldn't be the same without the occasional smack-up - and lets face it, Mr Burke is usually involved in most of them

Hope you've gotten your blogging platform bugs worked out!

Check out my blog here: http://www.aboutrestore.com

I'll nominate our HP StorageWorks blog (www.hp.com/storage/blog). While it's a bit self-serving, it is a team blog so I'm not the only one who writes on it.

With dedupe continuing to be top-of-mind, I nominate Ocarina's blog http://onlinestorageoptimization.com/, which is maintained by their co-founder, Carter George.

I am happily and shamelessly nominating a number of NetApp blogs:

Dave's Blog (NetApp / Dave Hitz; http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/)
Storage Nuts & Bolts (NetApp / Nick Triantos; http://blogs.netapp.com/storage_nuts_n_bolts/)
Exposed (NetApp / Val Bercovici; http://blogs.netapp.com/exposed/)
Extensible NetApp Blog (NetApp / Kostadid Roussos; http://blogs.netapp.com/extensible_netapp/)
The Virtualization Effect (NetApp; http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualization/)
The Missing Shade of Blue (NetApp / Alex McDonald; http://blogs.netapp.com/shadeofblue/)
Storage Efficiency Insights (NetApp; http://blogs.netapp.com/efficiency/)
Ask Dr. Dedupe (NetApp / Larry Freeman; http://blogs.netapp.com/drdedupe/)
The Virtual Storage Guy (NetApp / Vaughn Stewart; http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualstorageguy/)
NetApp for Microsoft Environments (NetApp; http://blogs.netapp.com/msenviro/)
Simple Steve Blog (NetApp / Steve Klinkner; http://blogs.netapp.com/simple_steve/)

Maybe you should have added a rule - no self nominating, or maybe, vendors can't just list all their blogs... there are over 500 on developerworks... lol... would avoid the risk of anyone taking the piss... ^^^

Heck, NetApp has over 30 blogs -- I didn't even come close to listing them all.

Always a great read with smart tech analogies and witty humor. All leading back to storage.

Mark, Chuck, and Anarchist for the win.

Gratifying to be mentioned twice in these comments -- without the need to shamelessly self-promote!

Hopefully, vendor-written blogs will gradually improve over time, and we can aspire to a broader industry discussion.

Or maybe not!

P.S. I'm proud to be a Storage Monkey!

-- Chuck

suprising to see my name amongst these admittedly impressive folks. thanks for the vote(s) of confidence!

cheers,

dave

It's an honor to see Carter George and Online Storage Optimization, the Ocarina blog on the list here among these well-established titans in storage blogging. May the best blog win--or at least the most popular kid in the class.

I second the motion to add the blog of Vaughn Stewart of NetApp to the poll.

http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualstorageguy/

I would like to nominate the blog of David West of CommVault -- http://news.commvault.com/DavidWest

In the better late than never category, I nominate Steve Foskett and whichever one of his blogs fits this category
Go Steve, Go, you have my virtual vote!
Cheers
gs

Agree with Greg that it should be on here: http://developer.nirvanix.com/...fault.aspx


S

Having only 10 slots for the top 10 vendor blogs, with a few vendors having 5-10 different bloggers, why not enable more vendor blogs to have visibility by linking to a higher level community page on the vendors' website. For example, EMC has a landing page for their blogs (http://www.emc.com/community/index.htm) and so does NetApp (http://www.netapp.com/us/commu...blogs.html). Instead of taking 8 or 9 of the spots with two vendors that are a small part of the overall storage blogging world, use their landing page to point to all of their collective bloggers so that more of the other vendors are visible.

Just a thought....