Monday meanderings!

I type this sitting in the sunny UK and yes, it is actually sunny as I type this; it will probably be raining when you read this but the sun does on occasion shine in the UK. I am not in sunny Orlando with the great majority of the storage community, well those members of the storage community whose chosen brand is EMC.

I wonder what EMC World will bring this time, more V-MAX revelations I suspect; there is more to come on that front and I'd expect EMC to at least tease a few more. You would be disappointed to get all the way to Orlando and not have some exclusive revelations. I wonder if we are going to see more on the future of Control Center and some insight on version 7?

I think EMC are learning, they have been told enough times by people that Control Center is not good enough, they have been asked enough times why they did not buy Onaro and I think that they have got the message. Storage Configuration Advisor is a nod in that direction and hopefully they will reveal a little more. They should announce that Control Center 7 is going to be free and in fact that anyone who has had to put up with all previous versions will actually be paid to use Control Center 7 but I somehow doubt that as a possibility.

So I look forward to reading all the various blogs from EMC World; I'm off to the SNIA Academy event tomorrow in London to hear what some non-EMCers have to say about the industry. Not as glamorous as Orlando but it's quicker to get to and a lot cheaper! If you are there, say hello; I'll even let you buy me a beer!