by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
Chris Mellor has the story on NetApp’s new bid. Basically NetApp has sweetened their offer of combined cash and stock to match EMC’s all-cash offer. I commented yesterday that If NetApp merely matches EMC’s offer they may still win the deal. Valley folks...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
With all the kerfluffle, one might think that Data Domain is the only dedup appliance company out there. They aren’t. The big guys are admitting they don’t have a product Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid, weighed in with some pertinent comments today: What...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 1, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
EMC plays catchup Long known for picking up useful assets at fire sale prices EMC is making a $2B move to pick up Data Domain at a premium price. That’s less than 2 weeks after NetApp put DD in play with a friendly $1.5B cash + stock offer. With...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | Future Tech, Marketing |
They are lifeless ideas nearly devoid of meaning – but they just won’t die. Like real – if a mythical creature can be called “real” – zombies they take a long time to kill. In a time of economic crisis, when IT organizations are...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 25, 2009 | Off-Topic |
Please pardon another Memorial Day post. While most of what modern storage systems protect are business records there is also the use of storage for saving our cultural heritage – of which this is a small part. My father, Tom, was an officer in the US Navy...
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