by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise |
Joe Tucci let slip, on purpose, that EMC will be coming out with a cluster storage system for backup and archive purposes at a press event this week. Hulk is the code name for the hardware. Maui is the software. Expect to see large green guys in grass skirts at the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
The most famous computer ad that never ran was created for Data General. As told in Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine (still a great story of the inside of a major product development cycle) after IBM announced the Series/1, a 16-bit minicomputer designed...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Yippie-ki-yi-yay As we say here in ranch country. Sun sent out a press release on the NetApp fracas today. I didn’t have time to parse it, so here’s the raw intelligence: Sun was legally obligated to respond in Texas to the initial suit brought on...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
New Product Introduction As part of my campaign to increase the world’s consumption of disk capacity – see yesterday’s post – I’ve developed a new capacity gobbling product. For lack of a better term I call it a video white paper. The...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 26, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Amazon and Google have demonstrated commercially – as have a number of research projects such as Microsoft’s Boxwood – it is possible to build highly available storage out of commodity servers. The odd thing is that, AFAIK, there is no commercially...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | Enterprise |
Or at least their salesmen are Just got a note from a fellow who prefers anonymity about his experience with a not-very-large sale: EMC, NetApp and Onstor have been particularly aggressive in trying to win our business, which isn’t terribly large – we were...
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