by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 20, 2017 | Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A reader wrote to ask for the StorageMojo take on NetApp now, as opposed to the assessment in How doomed is NetApp? two years ago. Q3 had some good news for NetApp. In their latest 10Q filing, they noted that while revenues for the first 9 months of the year were down...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 9, 2016 | Management |
Now that Dell has completed the EMC acquisition, you are in for a rude awakening. While Dell may own EMC, EMC owns you. Richard Egan, one of the founders os EMC, fostered an exceptionally aggressive sales culture. The company liked to hire guys from blue collar...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 15, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Information Management, IoT, Management |
IBM researchers are proposing – and demoing – an intelligent storage system that works something like your brain. It’s based on the idea that it’s easier to remember important, like a sunset over the Grand Canyon, than the last time you waited...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Virtualization |
You have a data center full of Windows and Linux servers running your key applications. How do you migrate them to the cloud; or, at the very least, enable cloud-based disaster recovery? That’s the question CloudVelox is trying to answer. Their software enables...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 16, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Marketing |
EMC’s Joe Tucci has long been the smartest CEO in storage. While not every one of his bets has paid off, enough have done well, while the VMware $625M buy was a monster smash. Since VMware accounts for some 70% of EMC’s market cap, it is really the only...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 13, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
The current turmoil caused by plummeting cloud storage costs, new entrants sporting modern architectures and the forced re-architecting due to flash and upcoming NV memories is a perfect storm for legacy vendors. Some are handling it better than others, but some, like...
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