The high-end storage meltdown

Expect to hear a lot more about the SMB segment over the next 6 months. Because the high-end market is sucking wind. NetApp and EMC are both reporting problems in the high-end. HP and IBM don’t break out as much detail but I’m sure they are feeling the...

Grid is dead

Was it ever alive? Techies have been excited about grid computing for years. The rest of the world never caught on. They probably never will. Who killed grid? A slide from Sun’s recent HPC meeting at SC’07 implicated marketing: The Grid is Dead… Term...

Adva & Sepaton price lists now online

Who the heck is Adva? A couple of months ago a commenter asked for pricing info on Adva. I’d never heard of them, but as part of some web site work I checked into them. Turns out they are a fast-growing German-based company specializing in metro-are optical...