by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
Chris Mellor has the story on NetApp’s new bid. Basically NetApp has sweetened their offer of combined cash and stock to match EMC’s all-cash offer. I commented yesterday that If NetApp merely matches EMC’s offer they may still win the deal. Valley folks...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 1, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
EMC plays catchup Long known for picking up useful assets at fire sale prices EMC is making a $2B move to pick up Data Domain at a premium price. That’s less than 2 weeks after NetApp put DD in play with a friendly $1.5B cash + stock offer. With...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 18, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing |
Until the 1980s the computer industry was characterized by a vertical integration of the major players. They produced their own CPUs, operating systems, applications, networks, peripherals, interconnects, and in some cases clusters. With the advent of the PC and...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 17, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Massive economies of scale make cloud computing and storage inevitable. But if the scale required for economic clouds exceeds the capacity requirements of the largest enterprises “private clouds” won’t fly against their public counterparts. Some cool...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 10, 2009 | Enterprise, Management |
James Hamilton pointed to an Intel Brief titled Reducing Data Center Cost with an Air Economizer that cost conscious folks will want to look at. The concept: let’s take vendors at their specs for temperature ranges and use free outside air to cool a data center....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 2, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management |
Brief update on the Cisco WebEx conference this morning. I got into the conference late and missed the embargo requirements, so this could be above your pay grade. Also, WebEx wasn’t showing me the slides until late in the presentation. But here’s what I...
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