StorageMojo jobs board

by | Thursday, October 25, 2007 | Off-Topic

Update: The service wasn’t as helpful as I’d hoped. I’ll give them some time to tune it up and try it again. End update. I occasionally get folks either asking about jobs or wanting to offer jobs. I’ve never taken them up on it because admin is...

Sun fires back at NetApp

by | Thursday, October 25, 2007 | Future Tech | 21 comments

Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has fired back at NetApp’s patent suit against Sun over ZFS, the advanced file system that promises to markedly increase data integrity for Sun and Apple users. From the “best defense is a strong offense” playbook...

Storage vendors are HUNGRY!

by | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | Enterprise | 7 comments

Or at least their salesmen are Just got a note from a fellow who prefers anonymity about his experience with a not-very-large sale: EMC, NetApp and Onstor have been particularly aggressive in trying to win our business, which isn’t terribly large – we were...

Isilon cleans house

by | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | Enterprise | 0 comments

Founder Sujal Patel back as CEO After 3 quarters of missed targets, Isilon’s board fired the CEO and CFO and reinstated founder Sujal Patel as CEO. Said Isilon chairman, former EPA secretary and longtime Seattle heavyweight William D. Ruckelshaus: “We...