by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Here’s a good question: why are cloud vendors able to innovate so much faster than legacy vendors? AWS brags about the hundreds of new features and services they implement every year – and their accelerating pace. But here’s a better question: why...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 4, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, Object storage |
IDC’s Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Market for Q3 2015 had some interesting results. The thumbnail is the title of this post. But there are a couple more details. ODM vendors – who sell direct to the hyperscale data center customers – had the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Mobile, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Cheap storage is changing the world. Whether it is in the cloud, on a dash cam, or embedded in an app, cheap – as in inexpensive – storage is enabling new relationships between individuals, and with culture, power, and groups. Facebook is the most...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 16, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Zigging when others are zagging can be smart. Dell buying EMC to create a large computer company could be genius – or the last hurrah of a failing business model. Dell’s perspective is simple: ≈50% of Dell’s revenue comes from PCs, a rapidly...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 22, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
I was hoping to go to this year’s Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference, as I did last year, but no joy. Not enough press passes to go around, I was told. But then I learned that AWS limited press and analyst passes to fewer than 30, much to the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 16, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Marketing |
EMC’s Joe Tucci has long been the smartest CEO in storage. While not every one of his bets has paid off, enough have done well, while the VMware $625M buy was a monster smash. Since VMware accounts for some 70% of EMC’s market cap, it is really the only...
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