The high-end storage meltdown

Expect to hear a lot more about the SMB segment over the next 6 months. Because the high-end market is sucking wind. NetApp and EMC are both reporting problems in the high-end. HP and IBM don’t break out as much detail but I’m sure they are feeling the...

Grid is dead

Was it ever alive? Techies have been excited about grid computing for years. The rest of the world never caught on. They probably never will. Who killed grid? A slide from Sun’s recent HPC meeting at SC’07 implicated marketing: The Grid is Dead… Term...

The Hulk goes Hawaiian

Joe Tucci let slip, on purpose, that EMC will be coming out with a cluster storage system for backup and archive purposes at a press event this week. Hulk is the code name for the hardware. Maui is the software. Expect to see large green guys in grass skirts at the...

StorageMojo NPI

New Product Introduction As part of my campaign to increase the world’s consumption of disk capacity – see yesterday’s post – I’ve developed a new capacity gobbling product. For lack of a better term I call it a video white paper. The...