 We're talking social media and All right The person behind all the guests feel the reason why we had such great guests Gina was made it happen. I mean, yeah, I know you had a lot of help But you really were the lightning rod that made it so thank you very much. Thank you guys for coming We really really appreciate we have enjoyed working with you. You've been fantastic so you You were working you were doing social media at equal or at EMC, right? Yeah, okay I was there. I joined I joined Dell on Valentine's Day this year Don't you love that so when it's interesting when I interviewed with Dell The day I interviewed was the day they announced the compelling acquisition. So it was kind of strange trying to think through what I wanted to do but At EMC, you know, I love I have many friends at EMC. My husband still works at EMC. So And I had a great opportunity. I worked in the education organization and I drove social media for their certification program and Was part I was one of the bloggers I was part of getting social media started internally at EMC and Mentored and just like it's great great group of people at EMC I got stuck kind of in an operational role and I am very technical and there was an opportunity here for me to To come over to Dell and do session media and be technical again So it was too good to pass up and it's great being here. It really really is so what does that mean in the social media context? How do you apply your technical skills? Right now it was an interesting transition because I don't know if you know Jennifer Gargis Meyer She is is who kind of started and spearheaded social media for the storage organization at Dell and And she when I came on and she had just gone on maternity leave So when I got here, I actually when I got here they started talking and planning for the forums They're like, yeah, we need social media and you're the one and drive it So I kind of did a lot of I've done a lot of operational since I've been at Dell but what I got hired to do was to be a technical blogger to go out and Blog about technology and what I'm hoping to blog about and start on is object-based storage Because which will translate to the blog which has been and I know some about it And I couldn't like kind of like a fuzzy picture about, you know Like what technically what it is and what it can do and all the rest of it So I think what I'm gonna try to do is kind of write these blogs and my journey through actually figuring out and digging down See, I know we're supposed to be talking about social media, but can I ask your question about object? I told you it's fuzzy I told it it's fuzzy You heard the fuzzy part, right? Yeah. Yeah, so I might not be able to answer this question I've been looking at it too and it is kind of fuzzy, but the people that I've talked to about it Those who have implemented it say well, it's made my life so much better. It's policy-based I have all this metadata and it's you know, seems like it's really gonna simplify storage and it's very much cloud Right, you know the whole rest interface and in APIs and everything else. So so What else do you know about object? I think the thing it fascinates me From what I do know and it is very little is It's a it's a different way of looking how to store the data So it's not based on this hierarchical file system anymore But you actually have these objects that you store with some metadata You might have one flat form of reference down into those objects Maybe one or two and that's it So you're able to make these kind of virtual file systems to get at the objects from different types of ways And what that really means I'm not sure that's where the fuzzy starts and that's what I'm really So it's kind of like a shift in if we're always use all of our applications are written for files Everything is based on that. So very hierarchical, right? Right, so what have in the unstructured data, right? We put into structures So what does that mean if you switch to an object-based way of storing that information? And I don't know and that's what I hopefully will blog about over the next few months Well, there's some examples of people that are doing it out there and web 2.0 Absolutely the world that seem to be doing pretty well exactly So even people getting learning with you That's kind of the idea and I came from the education group. Yeah, it's kind of a natural thing for me I was talking technology translating it It'll be a smooth transition So how will you go about learning about all this? Well, you had Gene Chester on yeah, he's in my group and you just go pick And I go to Austin He's in Austin and I still live outside Boston, but I go to Austin every month and he I don't have an appointment with I need to put him on my calendar. He get on his calendar, but yeah I want to get productive when you're in Austin Well, I don't know if you saw the tweets about his whiteboard sessions Everybody went crazy over him geeking out and doing his whiteboard session So he told me he would give me a one-on-one and so he's gonna help me And also the product managers are in my group and they're real excited that I'm interested in it So they're they'll provide me a lot of support So this so that's that's sort of face-to-face Interactions and then you just read like crazy read like crazy. Someone will give me some time and I guess I get some Lab space and I'll go crazy. I'll be good I cannot And and where's the blog that they'll be able to follow that along? Okay, so the name of my blog is storage according to a Dixie chick It's gmings.edgublogs.org Okay, she means So you and I were talking off-camera About you know social media and the fact that that there there are stories within the storage world That really aren't being shared. I mean within the social media world We we have a lot going on but you never you don't really see a whole lot about Storage and about the people in storage. Well, that's one reason and we were just talking about this with some of the guys over there a Minute ago that we're really happy you guys came so we have This this chance to get all of our storage executives up here and talk yeah, you've had some of our bloggers You had some of our customers our partners I had a good wide range of people and I mean I think Even me coming into Dell when I was doing my research and thinking you don't you don't hear about these enterprise technical guys and gals everybody Check which is awesome. So you don't really hear about them and there is a real There's a great amount of talent here at all like very technical talent The thing that's been the most awesome. They all want to share They all want to jump in and help everybody and help promote everybody and help everybody learn what to do and move everything forward And I just I'm I'm happy and hoping that you know, this will help You know growing our community externally for the bar our rabid customers from both of our crazy Ecologic and crazy fanboy Compellent sides like growing them