by Robin Harris | Monday, October 5, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Okay, we’ve figured out how to produce protected storage for $100 a terabyte . It has wide fan out so the bandwidth is modest. It uses large SATA disks so it isn’t great from an IOPS perspective either. But it works. What would it take to turn it into something...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, October 3, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
HP’s Tech Days this week in Colorado Springs impressed on two levels. First, their willingness to engage with the analysts and writers tagged with the disreputable term “blogger.†Second, the quality of the strategy they outlined for a unified computing and...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
A re-education camp for bloggers. If I start gushing on HP, slap me. Starts tomorrow in Colorado Springs. I’ve heard they’re flying in bloggers from Europe, which may lend tone to the event. Can you spell “virtualization?” The agenda includes...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 16, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing |
Microsoft has VMware in its sights and there will be blood. Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, gave what reads like a real barn-burner speech at the MS partner’s conference. He covered a lot of ground, but this stark warning to EMC/VMware was the toughest. He...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 9, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A couple of reliable informants tell me the same story: EMC’s Atmos is in a fight for its life. Symm and Clariion sales people are treating the new born product as a competitor, not another EMC product. The dozen or so Atmos sales people – yes, they have a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 4, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
Joe, how about “Hawaiian shirt Fridays?” Data Domain’s board is has rejected EMC’s all cash offer in favor of NetApp’s enhanced cash + stock offer. But shareholders get the ultimate say. EMC is continuing with its tender offer for...
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