by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 23, 2016 | Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
NetApp’s Q1 was a happy surprise for Wall Street: earnings blew past estimates and the stock spiked over 16%. But the quarterly 8k report was more downbeat. Product revenues Net revenue was down $41 million year over year. Products the company calls Strategic...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 6, 2016 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, which got me thinking about the next decade. Think of all the changes we’ve seen in the last 10 years: Cloud storage and computing that put a price on IT’s head Scale out object storage. Flash. Millions...
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 | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Infinite io’s Network Storage Controller (NSC) is a rarity in enterprise storage: an original and unique device. It turns your file storage network into a software defined resource. But it’s not a file server, a caching controller or an intelligent front...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 17, 2015 | Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
If NetApp is going to save itself – see How doomed is NetApp? – it needs to change the way it’s doing business and how it thinks about its customers. Or it can continue as it is and accelerate into oblivion. NetApp’s problem NetApp is...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 1, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
Scale out storage and Hadoop are a great duo for working with masses of data. Wouldn’t it be nice if it could also be used for more mundane storage tasks, like block storage? Well, it can. Some Silicon Valley engineers have produced a software front end for...
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