by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 18, 2014 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The Skyera acquisition could signal a sea change in the relationship between storage device and system makers. It is overdue. Traditionally, device makers avoided competing with their customers. This is what it made Seagate’s acquisition of Xiotech (now X-IO...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 2, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
The existential battle facing legacy storage vendors is about business models, not technology or features. Market forces – cloud providers and SMBs – are trying to turn a high margin business into a much lower margin business. We have already seen this...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 21, 2014 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Thanks to re:Invent and some other issues I haven’t done much hiking in the last 2 weeks. But back on the 8th I took a hike with my friend Gudrun up Cockscomb. There’s no official Forest Service trail so I was glad to have a guide for my first ascent. We...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 21, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Information Management, Object storage |
The economics of massive scale-out storage systems has thrown a harsh light on legacy enterprise storage. Expensive, inflexible, under-utilized data silos are not what data intensive enterprises need or – increasingly – can afford. That much is obvious to...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 18, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
EMC – and other legacy array vendors – are trying to become an intermediary between enterprises and the cloud. Are cloud-washed arrays a viable strategy? EMC’s Joe Tucci is working to ensure that EMC can survive in a cloud world even if he...
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