by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 17, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing |
It used to be so simple: EMC, NetApp, Hitachi and the captive storage businesses of systems companies. Add in some fast running startups, such as today’s Nimble, Nutanix and Avere, to keep things interesting. But no more. While the startups will require several...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Americans love round numbers. 600HP. 200MPH. $1,000,000,000. 15% capital gains tax rate. 10Gb/s. 6TB drive. 1,000,000 IOPS. $2/GB. Those are brawny, manly numbers that red-blooded Americans can relate to. Not fussy little decimals, sliding further into irrelevancy...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 9, 2014 | Marketing |
StorageMojo’s busy analyst team is getting a break from the smoldering fire and smoke of northern Arizona: several days in Las Vegas at HP Discover. For a few days everyone had a 3 pack a day habit. HP storage HP’s storage group hasn’t had an easy...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 17, 2014 | Enterprise, Marketing |
When my children were little and cried due to a scraped knee, I would examine it gravely and then say: “This looks bad! Time to amputate!” That quieted them right down and, to my relief, they’ve grown up to be functional human beings working –...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC World is in Las Vegas this year, a short drive from the StorageMojo Global HQ. Requested a press pass in February. No response. Repeated request a couple of weeks ago and got this answer: At this time the press and analyst programs are at full capacity and we are...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 7, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC |
Thoughts about cloud. The economic basis is two-fold: economies of massive scale; and, commodity parts. Scale The corollary to massive scale is monoculture. Monocultures have their advantages – look at America’s corn-growing prowess – but their...
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