by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | Enterprise |
Founder Sujal Patel back as CEO After 3 quarters of missed targets, Isilon’s board fired the CEO and CFO and reinstated founder Sujal Patel as CEO. Said Isilon chairman, former EPA secretary and longtime Seattle heavyweight William D. Ruckelshaus: “We...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 22, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Price Lists |
Get ’em while they’re hot! There is a rumor that NetApp, seeking to strangle baby Isilon in its crib, is giving away product to win deals. At $1/GB I might buy one If true, this could reflect continued weakness in NetApp’s results, as noted by...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | Enterprise |
Let’s take it from the top What is behind the decision to fold Sun’s storage group into the server group? I’ll quote from Jonathan Schwartz’s blog and analyze. Mr. Schwartz has hold of a serious idea here: if Sun were competitive in storage it...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise |
Time to get serious, guys TechCrunch and VNUnet are reporting that EMC is buying online backup provider Mozy for $76 million. Neither EMC or Mozy has issued any confirmation, so who knows if it is real. But let’s assume it is. Puzzled? This is a good fit for EMC...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
I’m sure Tucci would have preferred another topic I’m not going to talk about the strip clubs, showgirls painted with EMC’s initials – “Mr. Fredrickson [EMC spokesman] says the initials EMC were on the showgirls’ thighs, not their...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 10, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
I’m always curious about the context of the communications as well as the content. The Bush administration, for example, has been very disciplined in releasing bad news late Friday in the reasonable expectation that most people won’t ever hear about it....
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