Brian Garrett of ESG believes that future storage controllers will be composed of cluster based storage controllers instead of the enterprise class storage controllers from EMC, HDS, and IBM. He observes that many emerging storage controllers use commodity Intel servers...

Oracle employs over a hundred professionals who look after thequality of user interfaces. The combined forces do not include UIengineers, external Web site staff, or front end programmers. Thatnumber doesincludes usability engineers, interaction designers,ethnographers, all the usual characters found in other Human ComputerInteraction departments.

I had been toying with the idea of starting my own BLOG since I started reading them about a year ago.

But much like following up on new year's resolutions, we very often need to be nudged to actually get started. For me the nudge came in the form of Oracle marketing department offering to help in setting up everything. So short on excuses to procrastinate any longer, here I am!

What an exhilarating day! I spent the past couple of hours with 400+ attendees at the StorageWorks.06 conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. It was a bit crowded since there were A LOT more customers than we originally planned for... but that's not all bad since none of them could talk to our competitors today :-).