by Robin Harris | Friday, September 10, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise, Virtualization |
Robert Gray, a former analyst at IDC and long time friend, asked me to respond to a comment from NetApp president Tom Georgens. Tom told Information Week that: . . . virtualization is fundamentally changing the way data centers are designed: instead of individual...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Wondering about HP’s counter for 3Par. Dell’s offer makes sense: they’re building expertise and a high-margin business. Dell and long time supplier EMC are growing apart as Dell realizes that that the relationship is doing little for them – and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 26, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise |
A commenter recently asked Archivas was focused on archive, do you expect the new solution to sustain performance for primary storage as well? Which is a good question, if you know what “primary” means. Do we? Tiers of a clown 10 years ago we all agreed on...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 22, 2010 | Enterprise, Marketing |
Winding up the week – it is Friday here – in Japan as a guest of Hitachi Data Systems. Fine hospitality from my American and Japanese hosts in steamy mid-summer Tokyo. Looking forward to Arizona. The practitioners in the group – one who loves XIV,...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, July 18, 2010 | Enterprise |
The friendly folks at Hitachi are flying me and a number of other analysts and bloggers to Tokyo. They want to tell us about their plans for – well, I don’t know what – and it’s under NDA. Normally I don’t sign those, but between Tokyo...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Backup, Enterprise |
Storage Newsletter reports that Tape Drive and Media Revenues Decreased by 25% in 2009. The data comes from a report by the Santa Clara Consulting Group. The numbers show us how old tape formats die: slowly. While the overall market for drives and media was $1.58B it...
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