Thanks for placing me on your reader-list.

Another reason that might answer why stoage people are not blogging is isolationism. Maybe they have solved all the storage management and implementation ills and don't want to share the solutions.

Or perhaps they a little timid with what they percieve as weaknesses in thier own infrastructure, and think that they are the only ones with these kind of issues. Most readers could really benefit from the good and the bad stories and case studies.

Maybe I'm off-base, but I agree that there are plenty of smart people with good ideas, and we need to take on the kindergarten addage... 'sharing with others'. Blogging is a good way to do that.

Dave

You're welcome, David and thank you for suggesting two good reasons that explain quite well why users are not talking.

I have found often "timid" people in our business. They will give you an earful privately, but, as you say, hesitate to discuss publicly their pain and suffering. Understandable but unfortunate.

The same is true for the "lucky" ones, who don't want to share with potential competitors the power that comes from a good, solid implememtation.

How do we break that empasse? Perhaps if more vendors' engineers would start talking... But I am repeating myself now:>)

Mario

Storage vendors don't understand how they can leverage blogs.

I don't expect vendors to encourage blogging considering they don't even want to have their official positions/documents public. Then why would they encourage "unofficial" positions public thru blogs.

Storage world is walled garden. Storage vendors make everyone jump hoops to access even "official" technical information.

Storage is extremely silo-ed profession. Blinders are set on one vendor products or one technology. Doesn't make for interesting writing/reading that may get wider readership.

Welcome, Anil, and thank you for adding to the discussion. I don't disagree with the good points you make but let me try to address that "wider readership" part.

It's true that storage doesn't have the same large audience of, say, Vista or Linux. However, that numeric difference doesn't tell the whole story.

The reality is that purchasing storage often generates transactions that are several orders of magnitude more expensive than buying new servers, for example.

People may not look at storage very often but when they do they are in for big money and need good advice.

Mario

I've been watching the storage blogopshere myself, and noticed a trend that analysts tended to be first tier adopters in blogging (likely because publishing online is native activity) quickly followed by vendors.

I am surprised that more storage practioners (customers) are not blogging --and I wish they did.

I've created a wiki that lists all the blogs in the storage industry, please check it out, and make suggestions or email me if you see additions.

http://storagebloggers.pbwiki.com/Data%20Storage%20Bloggers

Thank you Jeremiah. Making a wiki of storage bloggers is a great idea! Why didn't I think of that?

Anyway, I'll be glad to help keeping it up to date. If only more vendors would follow the leadership of HDS and let their engineers blog freely...

Mario

Glad you think it's a good idea, I'll do whatever I can do to make it easy for customers using the web.

I've expanded the wiki to include other resources, and will be building it out as a resource to the storage community.

Also, I've decided to pay for the premium account on my own dime, (removed those ads) and opened it up as a community resource --now anyone can post helpful information. (Of course I'll police any nasties)

Let's build a great resource for a great community.

-HDS Web Geek