The Hulk goes Hawaiian

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...

The bastards say, welcome.

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...

Sun counter-punches NetApp

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...

StorageMojo NPI

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...

Would you use OSS storage?

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...

Storage vendors are HUNGRY!

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...