by Robin Harris | Monday, August 31, 2009 | Future Tech, Information Management, Marketing |
With the release of Snow Leopard it is now official: no ZFS – anywhere – in Mac OS 10.6. Given that Apple went to the trouble of announcing it last year as part of Snow Leopard Server this is quite a reversal. The question is why? Many theories I wrote...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 17, 2009 | Clusters, Marketing |
Another scrappy startup bites the dust HP announced this morning that it is buying IBRIX, one of the up and comers for scale-out cluster file storage. They expect to close the transaction in 30 days. The IBRIX secret sauce IBRIX was founded in 2000 with IP from Yale...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 16, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing |
Microsoft has VMware in its sights and there will be blood. Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, gave what reads like a real barn-burner speech at the MS partner’s conference. He covered a lot of ground, but this stark warning to EMC/VMware was the toughest. He...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | Future Tech, Marketing |
They are lifeless ideas nearly devoid of meaning – but they just won’t die. Like real – if a mythical creature can be called “real” – zombies they take a long time to kill. In a time of economic crisis, when IT organizations are...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 18, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing |
Until the 1980s the computer industry was characterized by a vertical integration of the major players. They produced their own CPUs, operating systems, applications, networks, peripherals, interconnects, and in some cases clusters. With the advent of the PC and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 11, 2009 | Marketing |
Today’s economy is the opportunity of a lifetime for risk-taking tech companies. The intense economic pressure on all firms is forcing IT organizations to rethink infrastructure and vendor choices. If you’ve got an innovative product that cuts costs...
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