Juicy as a compressed orange

Not the Cockney expression which inspired the Stanley Kubrick movie. But the buzz over the last 3 weeks about storage and compression amongst the flies on the walls at the Orange County Convention Center.

At Collaborate two weeks ago - what Oracle will likely do with Sun, and what it means to storage. At Sapphire last week - what Dr. Plattner’s vision of super-compressed data means to storage. This week at EMC World - what its emphasis on virtualization and foray into cloud computing mean to storage. 

It is good to see one of the biggest and fastest growing components of IT spend get more and more attention – see my note Should the storage tail wag the application dog?

The time is right to develop aversion therapies towards our addiction to expensive storage – to borrow a non-Cockney expression from Kubrick’s movie.