Month: February 2012

  • Gear Review: Cocoon GRID-IT Organizers

    [Disclaimer: This is an unsolicited review for a product I purchased.  I have received nothing for writing it.  The manufacturer isn’t even aware that I’m writing it.] I’m a firm believer in being prepared — so much so that I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me on a daily basis.  Friends and…

  • Social Media Experiment #1: TBaaS

    I would have to say that two distinctly different things in me came together to bring about this particular experiment. First, I continue to maintain that social media is still brand-new.  That means that nobody gets to call themselves an “expert” at it.  That means that nobody can actually offer “best practices”, merely “here’s some…

  • EMC VFCache (Project Lightning) in a VMware Environment

    [UPDATE: 4 September 2012: This post refers to VFCache at the time of launch and is outdated now that EMC has released VFCache 1.5. You can read my post about that release here.] Today, EMC announced their much-anticipated server-side Flash product, Project Lightning, under its official name, VFCache. Lots of folks are writing about VFCache…