by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 23, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
IBM’s vestigial hardware business – 15.5% of Q4 company revenue – continues to slide. This won’t end well. In its Q4/2013 earnings call, IBM’s profits were higher than forecast, but revenues were lower. Hardware was the major culprit....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 16, 2014 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Last year Nimble Storage was the poster boy for rapid growth and success. But that was last year. This year there’s a new poster boy: Nutanix. I spoke to VP Howard Ting last year about what was driving Nutanix. After all, the concept of a building block...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 13, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Future Tech |
WD is sampling SMR – Shingled Magnetic Recording – disk drives to several cloud vendors including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Seagate announced sales of a million SMR drives in September. HGST likely has a similar program under way. SMR in a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 9, 2013 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If a well-funded startup came to you and asked you to bet your business on a brand-new architecture and product, what would you say? “I’ll wait” is a likely answer. So why is it any different when that start up product comes from EMC? You could argue...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 3, 2013 | Enterprise |
The crack StorageMojo analyst team will be attending HP Discover next week in beautiful Barcelona. There is a new guard in the ESSN group now that Dave Donatelli has moved on. HP is going through a particularly tough product transition. But, unlike EMC, HP is doing it...
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