by Robin Harris | Monday, July 17, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 13, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Tim O’Reilly has a post Operations: The New Secret Sauce about a discussion with Microsoft’s VP of Operations for Windows Live and how the new massive scale internet centers of Microsoft, Google et.al. change everything: . . . once we move to software as a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 10, 2006 | Enterprise |
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....
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 10, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
Hitachi Data Systems is announcing a global reseller agreement today with Diligent Technologies whose 25x Backup Data Compression is, IMHO, conceptually the best in the industry. I’m sure the HDS folks have thoroughly checked the technology and found that it...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 3, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Amazon, the online retailer, is emerging as Google’s most effective competitor in the world of web-based applications – and NOT by going head-to-head with the search monster, at least, not now. No one is likely to beat Google playing Google’s game....
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