ILM: RIP

It’s official: ILM (Information Lifecycle Management), the three year old storage industry marketing thrust, is in critical condition. The good people over at the StorageNetworking.org have politely raised the red flag on ILM in three reports (see Information...

Coolest New Box: Sun Fire X4500

Sun may be getting their game on if the X4500 is any evidence. Packing 24 TB of storage and 2 dual-core 64bit Opterons into a 4U box, it is the first system anywhere to leverage the very cool ZFS. ZFS: Google File System For The Rest Of Us Google’s GFS...

EMC Misses Market, Gets Hammered

EMC’s stock dropped almost 7% today after they missed their quarterly revenue target by almost $100 million. They blame it on poor product mix. To my mind though, there is a bigger story here. First, forecasting is the number one measure of marketing quality....