Persistent What?

I'm heading out on vacation. Not good timing from a getting-my-blog-going perspective, I know. While I'm gone, check out a couple of articles I wrote recently on the topic of persistent data. They explain why growing volumes of this type of data are driving more and more IT administrators to "tiers" (and some even  to "tears"). I'll check back in when I return. Costa Rica awaits!

I'm Back ...

How unbelievably fitting (ironic actually) that my new ESG Blog – Driven to Tiers – debuts right after one of the biggest Super Bowl upsets in the history of the game. Really, I couldn’t have come up with a better segue if I had tried. Driven to tears indeed.

I need to vent: My husband and I are big Patriots fans (are there any other kind?), but we live in the South now. Anti-Yankee territory. Yes, the South stills views the world in Union-Confederate terms. It’s hard to believe, I know, but it’s true. I’m a Yankee. Didn’t think I’d ever be called that … Remember, I’m from Boston. Red Sox fine. Yankee never.

Anyway, so we were invited to a Super Bowl party to watch two northern (a.k.a. Yankee) teams play, I didn’t know if I wanted to go. Just didn’t think it would be much fun. But little did I know that 22 of the 26 guests who had been invited had become huge Giants fans and Patriots haters overnight. And I mean haters. Actually, I’ve never seen anything like it – and I’ve gone to Falcons and Braves home games when they’ve played Boston teams! Entirely different picture.

Reasons for hating the Patriots ranged from the “Belichik cheating incident” to Brady’s illegitimate child to “they’re smug.” Come on. It’s just plain jealousy. Again, I’m not knocking the Giants for winning (they played a better game than we did), but I am knocking these types of fans.

I see this type of thing in the storage industry all the time. A dominant player gets badgered while a struggling company receives storage awards (more on this in a future blog) for products that aren’t even real contenders yet. Now, I’m not saying that the leading guys are always right or that their products are better. What I am saying, though, is that it’s sometimes just a lot easier being the underdog.