by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Brilliant NetApp is buying Bycast, the little-known but likely most successful scale-out file storage company. Bycast has several hundred customers, many installed petabytes, leadership in a growing market segment – medical imaging – and a compelling value...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 9, 2010 | Management, Virtualization |
Got a presentation from a company I hadn’t heard of before: VKernel. Their specialty is virtual machine capacity planning and management. They demo’d their software, which ships as a VM. They offer free versions that are good enough to tell you if their...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | Off-Topic |
Off to Boston for a group blogger tour today and back Saturday. The agenda has been shrouded in secrecy though I believe EMC is on the list – with no NDA. Looking forward to that. Next week off to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 5, 2010 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Spoke to Don Basile and Matt Barletta of Violin Memory Friday. I’ve been talking to Violin for the last couple of years, and while I liked the technology was skeptical of their ability to commercialize it. That was then. Today Violin announced a multi-million...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | Security & Public Policy |
For an industry that stands to make billions of dollars on electronic health records (EHR) – if we can get people to use them – storage vendors are strangely passive on the issue of health privacy. Even the good guys like HP and NetApp are silent....
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