by Robin Harris | Monday, January 15, 2007 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
The elephant’s graveyard is a metaphor for a place where old ideas go to die. For IT it is the flipside of the consumerization of IT. The seductive glass house As Sun’s troubles over the last few years have emphasized, enterprise IT is a Venus flytrap...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 12, 2007 | Clusters, Off-Topic |
One of my favorite storage bloggers is NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz. He’s thoughtful, wry and, most important, he doesn’t spend much time pimping NetApp. I particularly enjoyed his recent post about lawyers and the legal system Lawyers Aren’t...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 11, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
Brocade announced it is buying Silverback Systems, makers of a low-cost IP accelerator chip Silverback has been getting some traction, as I learned when I had dinner with a couple of Silverback worthies at SNW. My pity turned to respect When I agreed to meet with...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Digi Times is reporting that Ritek, the Taiwan-based optical disk maker, announced a 32 GB flash drive under its RiDATA brand for OEM sale. The cool thing: looks like they are charging ~$10/GB for the 16 GB version, although the article isn’t clear on pricing. A...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
The story Steve ISN’T telling at MacWorld Buddhists believe that desire is the cause of suffering. I can’t speak to Steve Job’s religion, but it is clear he refuses to suffer for the enterprise. As one ex-Applet (what does one call them?) stated...
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