Linux needs Open Source Marketing

The limits of open source engineering Hang with engineers for a while and griping about marketing is inevitable. The 3 Margarita lunches, the plush globetrotting, the hotties in Marcom and worst of all, they don’t understand the product. Next bench marketing...

Nexenta next up on OSS storage

Nexenta is the next open source storage company – and the first to use ZFS. They are aiming at the enterprise storage market for 2nd tier storage. I talked to Evan Powell, the CEO last week, after a StorageMojo reader and Nexenta user, Joe Little, tipped me off...

The Hulk goes Hawaiian

Joe Tucci let slip, on purpose, that EMC will be coming out with a cluster storage system for backup and archive purposes at a press event this week. Hulk is the code name for the hardware. Maui is the software. Expect to see large green guys in grass skirts at the...