by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 26, 2011 | Enterprise, Marketing |
EMC is spending time and money to prank NetApp. Why? Stephen Foskett documents things EMC is doing to irritate NetApp: A small fleet of Minis with EMC colors parked in front of NetApp HQ Marking the sidewalks in front of NetApp’s HQ with EMC slogans Sharing...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 10, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Most of us know what it is like when a relationship goes bad: the sinking feeling that this just isn’t going to work. Can this configuration be saved? Dear StorageMojo: I joined a company last year that is running Oracle 10g on a NetApp NAS/SAN. Immediately I...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 3, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Talked to a startup the other day that looks interesting – Zettar. It wasn’t the name that caught my attention. Object storage is big in clouds. But objects aren’t compatible with standard apps: Powerpoint expects files, not objects. Cloudstores like...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 18, 2010 | Enterprise |
EMC acquires Isilon for $2.25 billion in cash. The StorageMojo take In one acquisition EMC gets: A high-growth scale out storage company. A replacement for the aging and unloved Centera/Celerra lines. A worthy competitor to NetApp’s NAS boxes. Scale out storage...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 18, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
One infrastructure to rule them all discussed the emerging enterprise need for a single, scalable file storage infrastructure. But what infrastructure? Some background to this is last year’s Cloud Quadrant and this year’s Why private clouds are part of the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 20, 2010 | Enterprise, Marketing |
HP’s off-the-charts $2.35B buy of 3Par is why Dave Donatelli gets the big bucks and you don’t. Mr. Donatelli, late of EMC, has big plans. But what are they? We can tease out part of Donatelli’s worldview from the size of the bet. 3Par fills a big...
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