by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Here’s a good question: why are cloud vendors able to innovate so much faster than legacy vendors? AWS brags about the hundreds of new features and services they implement every year – and their accelerating pace. But here’s a better question: why...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | Marketing |
I spent years working closely with engineers at DEC, Sun and other companies – and I always felt a bit sorry for them. They’d get flayed for every decommit and slip. They’d sweat blood figuring out solutions to hundreds of subtle problems. Then,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 12, 2016 | Enterprise, Marketing |
A few weeks ago Nimble Storage CEO Suresh Vasudevan flagged EMC’s aggressive sales tactics as a key problem for Nimble’s enterprise penetration. We can now put a number on how much this is costing EMC. For the full year, EMC’s Information Storage...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 4, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, Object storage |
IDC’s Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Market for Q3 2015 had some interesting results. The thumbnail is the title of this post. But there are a couple more details. ODM vendors – who sell direct to the hyperscale data center customers – had the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 22, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
I was hoping to go to this year’s Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference, as I did last year, but no joy. Not enough press passes to go around, I was told. But then I learned that AWS limited press and analyst passes to fewer than 30, much to the...
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...
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