Kirby Wadsworth

If you're reading storagesanity your now looking at the latest in on line blogging. I am writing this while driving. Typing on my treo while driving with my knee. That's why they call me an accident waiting to happen. ... (more)

Shame

I am whimping out and taking Jay off the hall of shame. To be fair, he has earned back his OSG priviledges. The rebranding, remessaging, repositioning exercise was well done (yeah, the logo is terrible, but who really cares?). He's done a fine job in a short time as CMO and I'm impressed with the results. gawd that hurt... ... (more)

The Character of Cloud Computing

Service Providers at Cloud Expo Here's an important reminder for cloud service providers: character counts. Ethics, Values, and Trust are table stakes – for anyone who wants to succeed in business long term – but especially for cloud service providers. As a cloud customer, I am not simply buying/renting your hardware and software. I am grafting my company onto yours. We are intermingling our corporate DNA. I am loading my databases on your disk drives. I am modifying my internal processes to map to your services. If you suddenly grow 3 heads, I cannot easily cut and run. Who you are... (more)

Now a Word About the Relevancy of File Virtualization

Having just discussed the ninny-ness of calling something is relevant, call me, Old Storage Ninny. First, let's establish my cred before I start jumping up and down screaming that File Virtualization is relevant. I am speaking for myself here – not my employer. While acknowledging that I work for a company that sells file virtualization technology, I want to be clear that my position here is mine – it’s personal this time. Sure, I want my employer to succeed, but I am speaking now from the heart and my 30 years of storage industry experience. In those 30 years, I have created, inst... (more)

Angels over Arizona

She calls herself SkyAngel, btw, which is perfect don’t you think? She is what Seth Godin describes as a lynchpin. I see her as a model for what the word ‘work’ means. In a thoughtful New York Times write-up, Adam Cohen vamps on Studs Terkle’s reflections on Working, “Even for the lowliest laborers, Mr. Terkel found, work was a search, sometimes successful, sometimes not, "for daily meaning as well as daily bread." SkyAngel sent me a nice note after my last blog entry. I just happened to catch her doing what she does everyday for all her passengers. “It’s my job,” she says, “Safe... (more)