...and we're back! With news to catch up on. First off:

Save The Date! for the next Storage Summit, to be held on February 23, 2009, just prior to (and co-located with) the USENIX FAST conference in San Francisco. The last one (in September, just before SNIA SDC) featured some great speakers, a fun party, and time to just sit and talk storage with some of the experts.  Watch this space for more news, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Show Your JBODs a Little Love - Brendan Gregg graphically demonstrates that they don't like being shouted at.

...and don't miss Brendan's JBOD Analytics example - "The Analytics feature of the Sun Storage 7000 series provides a fantastic new insight into system performance. Some screenshots have appeared in various blog posts posts, but there is a lot more of Analytics to show..."

and, last but never least, Bob Porras got snowed in and reflected that Sometimes Nature Makes You Take a Pause.