by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 27, 2005 | Backup, Enterprise |
Much more surprising and dangerous (than Carly’s firing) to the storage industry is the takeover of Veritas by Symantec. The largest independent storage software company can’t think of anything better to do for its stockholders than sell itself. Management...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 16, 2005 | Enterprise, Off-Topic |
Feb 16, 2005 So Carly’s bloody axe has fallen on . . . Carly. Much ink spilled on What It All Means, most of it wasted. This story really isn’t about Carly, as much as we Americans love simple stories with white hats and black hats. Carly was not the most...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 | Backup, Enterprise |
Jan 18, 2005 Hitachi is claiming they will be sampling a 5.25″ 200GB holographic storage platter late this year. If it were almost anyone else I wouldn’t give the story much credence, but Hitachi knows what it means to deliver product. I expect this date...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 4, 2005 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Sun is doing some reasonably smart pre-announcing of what they hope will be the Next Big Thing from their beleaguered storage group: Honeycomb. This system promises to: “search and retrieve files at a quick clip. The Honeycomb boxes will run specialized indexing...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, November 27, 2004 | Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
Don Valentine, pioneer Silicon Valley venture capitalist who founded Sequoia Capital in 1972, speaks out on one of my favorite subjects in a CNET interview: Which company or technology is most underrated but has or will have a huge influence? “I’ve always...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 | Enterprise |
Sun reported a 25% drop in quarter to quarter storage revenues this month. Painful, since storage is traditionally a very profitable area for the company. But the most interesting comment in the Byte & Switch article is that Sun’s attach rate —...
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