by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
They haven’t reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO and put founder Sujal Patel in his place. And NetApp was trying to strangle baby Isilon (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 28, 2008 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Despite being written off for dead . . . Isilon’s been putting their IPO money to good use: engineering the next gen of their platform that they’ve named the X-series. In the meantime they’ve been adding customers – over 600 so far – and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
What could be more appropriate? HP’s lackluster showing in The Info Pro’s survey – see yesterday’s post – reminded me that I’d written about HP shortly after after I’d started blogging (see HP’s Storage Grid-lock:...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 17, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise |
No, this isn’t about pork bellies In just the last few weeks EMC and IBM have announced their intentions to offer commodity server-based storage. EMC with Hulk/Maui and IBM with XIV. Sun already offers its Thumper product, a high-density server and storage...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 10, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Enough of Google’s bathtub brew IBM’s purchase of XIV makes it official: cluster storage is on a roll. XIV’s website could have been ripped from the webpages of StorageMojo: . . . enterprise-class storage systems typically comprise proprietary,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
For some reason I volunteered to write something about vendors after the Wikibon con call today. That follows. Vendors: responding to EMC’s cluster storage initiative Context: EMC’s support of cluster storage for archiving and backup will legitimize the...
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