My Silicon Valley education continues with a visit to the boardroom at Seagate today. Hey, my show needs hard drives. Big drives. So, seemed like I should go see one of the valley’s most famous disk drive manufacturers. Met with Julie Still, Vice President of Corporate Communications along with Brian Ziel, Senior Director, Gina Katz, Manager. Great group of folks and very passionate about disk drives! Anyway, what caught my eye was the headquarters’ address: 900 Disc Drive. Cute!
You rarely think about drives or storage media until they fail. Speaking of which I’m in the market for a 750GB drive. Which one is the best? Seagate’s at the top of my list. I like doing business with friendly people.
Anyway, on Monday I’m off to the SAP conference in Las Vegas to film stuff for my show (will only be there on Monday, John is sticking around for a few more days). Mark Finnern there writes about the day on his blog. Looking forward to meeting the SAP’ers, make sure to say hi if you’re there.
Thanks to Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser for the kind wishes on my show.
In the meantime, there’s another interview I did (with the guys who run the Microsoft Exchange team) at Microsoft that got published today over on Channel 9 (I did quite a few in the weeks before I quit that are still being processed and run).
Scobleizer 
Great News… having a famous Alpha Blogger at SDN Day! Looking forward to meet you there. James Ward (http://www.cayambe.com/wordpress/) and me will do a 2 hour session on using Adobe Flex to create engaging rich user interface for SAP applications. Now I need to check out the SAP Channel on PodTech.
Cheers,
Matthias
http://blog.matthiaszeller.com – http://blogs.adobe.com/matthiaszeller/
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Great News… having a famous Alpha Blogger at SDN Day! Looking forward to meet you there. James Ward (http://www.cayambe.com/wordpress/) and me will do a 2 hour session on using Adobe Flex to create engaging rich user interface for SAP applications. Now I need to check out the SAP Channel on PodTech.
Cheers,
Matthias
http://blog.matthiaszeller.com – http://blogs.adobe.com/matthiaszeller/
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I always use Seagate Drives and have been in their Partner Program for years.
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I always use Seagate Drives and have been in their Partner Program for years.
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I also use seagate drives — they are also going to be a partner of ours! All my seagate drives have been wonderfully reliable! I just got the 750 GB drive external on sale at Frys for backing up some stuff.
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I also use seagate drives — they are also going to be a partner of ours! All my seagate drives have been wonderfully reliable! I just got the 750 GB drive external on sale at Frys for backing up some stuff.
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Robert
I’d be happy to help arrange a tour Hitachi Global Storage Technolgies down on Cottle in South San Jose. We’ve got quite a few hardrives too!
Or, if you’re serious about storage, we can talk more on Tuesday at Hitachi Data Systems. Want a few Petabytes?
Jeremiah Owyang, Hitachi
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Robert
I’d be happy to help arrange a tour Hitachi Global Storage Technolgies down on Cottle in South San Jose. We’ve got quite a few hardrives too!
Or, if you’re serious about storage, we can talk more on Tuesday at Hitachi Data Systems. Want a few Petabytes?
Jeremiah Owyang, Hitachi
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One thing that really irks me is SAP’s restrictive blogging policy. Their executive blogs (http://www.sap.com/community/pub/blogs.epx) are only accessible if you register for their business community network. Strangely this does not apply to their developers network (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs). So ironically, I can read an RSS of what their developers are saying, but I’m left in the dark about what the executive board members think (they use ’email alerts’). Not a winning strategy, IMHO.
I’ve complained to them about it and they’ve responded promptly. The response and my comments are here: http://corpblawg.ynada.com/2006/09/09/saps-response-to-my-criticsm
An enjoyable weekend to everyone 🙂
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One thing that really irks me is SAP’s restrictive blogging policy. Their executive blogs (http://www.sap.com/community/pub/blogs.epx) are only accessible if you register for their business community network. Strangely this does not apply to their developers network (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs). So ironically, I can read an RSS of what their developers are saying, but I’m left in the dark about what the executive board members think (they use ’email alerts’). Not a winning strategy, IMHO.
I’ve complained to them about it and they’ve responded promptly. The response and my comments are here: http://corpblawg.ynada.com/2006/09/09/saps-response-to-my-criticsm
An enjoyable weekend to everyone 🙂
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I have three Seagate 400gb sata drives in my Media Center PC but with the new ones coming out from them as well as others like Htachi I find myself getting storage envy 😉
Wife just okayed the budgeting for building a new Media Center and I would love to hear your impressions of the 750gb you end up landing as I would like to put a few of those in it when I buld it out. All my family home video is taking up lots of space (and yes I have it all backed up via 2 methods) What a change from the days of my first computer, an Apple IIe. 🙂
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