by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | Enterprise, Management |
A reader writes that Symantec is laying off about 60 people from the division formerly known as Veritas: By now I’m sure you’ve heard about Symantec downsizing the (mostly) Mountain View storage group, cancelling some projects and moving others to India. One of...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
James Hamilton, Amazon architect and a very smart guy, recently blogged about private clouds. In Private Clouds Are Not The Future he argues that economies of scale make public clouds much more efficient than private clouds. I think we agree that several effects make...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | Enterprise, Information Management |
While everyone else was watching the Apple iPad intro I was watching Oracle’s John Fowler talk about their systems and storage strategy. I like the iPad, but the O+S strategy could reshape the storage industry. More details will emerge and many decisions still...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 28, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
2009 has been an eventful year: the Great Recession has driven big changes in enterprise behavior, opening up the field to many new players. Isilon, for one, is reporting healthy growth and they were on the ropes 2 years ago. Those changes are reflected in my take on...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 8, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
But not that kind of science project. This is the real deal, already running near a petabyte, needing to upgrade and looking for answers. Sounds like they’ll be spending real money real soon. I edited for brevity and asked the writer to monitor the comments to...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 23, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
Looking at ZL Technologies suit against Gartner (seeGartner’s magic hydrant) I noticed an interesting disconnect between their filings and their web site. The filings make impressive claims: Symantec’s search is so slow as to render it useless for its intended...
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