Daddy, tell me again how little EMC beat giant IBM . . .
The Computer History Museum holds occasional lectures and panel discussions, and they finally had one on storage. Hosted by the venerable Jim Porter (whose firm, Disk Trends, did the most reliable storage market research in the industry until he folded it a few years...
Veritas Goes Quietly Into That Good Night
Much more surprising and dangerous (than Carly’s firing) to the storage industry is the takeover of Veritas by Symantec. The largest independent storage software company can’t think of anything better to do for its stockholders than sell itself. Management...
The Bloody Axe Falls On . . . Carly
Feb 16, 2005 So Carly's bloody axe has fallen on . . . Carly. Much ink spilled on What It All Means, most of it wasted. This story really isn't about Carly, as much as we Americans love simple stories with white hats and black hats. Carly was not the most brilliant...
Hats off to Hitachi Holography
Jan 18, 2005 Hitachi is claiming they will be sampling a 5.25" 200GB holographic storage platter late this year. If it were almost anyone else I wouldn't give the story much credence, but Hitachi knows what it means to deliver product. I expect this date will slip...
Honeycomb full of holes?
Sun is doing some reasonably smart pre-announcing of what they hope will be the Next Big Thing from their beleaguered storage group: Honeycomb. This system promises to: "search and retrieve files at a quick clip. The Honeycomb boxes will run specialized indexing...
The Limits of Flash
The skirmish between rotating and solid state storage (SSS) continues. Solid state storage proponents have lost a number of bets over the years to the rotating media barons. The bet? When solid state storage would overtake rotating storage in the market place. With...
Amnesiac PCs: $100 Gets You Only Partial Amnesia
SolarPC has announced the SolarLite PC, a $100 (when you buy $10M worth!) PC based on the VIA chipset and DSLinux (Damn Small Linux) which includes a fairly complete set of tiny apps in just 50MB. It isn't clear if it includes a display in that price -- there is a...
Is Storage Important? Don Valentine Speaks Out
Don Valentine, pioneer Silicon Valley venture capitalist who founded Sequoia Capital in 1972, speaks out on one of my favorite subjects in a CNET interview: Which company or technology is most underrated but has or will have a huge influence? "I've always been...
Sun’s Sorry Storage Story
Sun reported a 25% drop in quarter to quarter storage revenues this month. Painful, since storage is traditionally a very profitable area for the company. But the most interesting comment in the Byte & Switch article is that Sun's attach rate -- storage sold with its...
EMC, Dell: Dantz with the one who brung ya
Ok, I plead guilty to felony language abuse. But what about EMC buying Dantz, makers of Retrospect? At the risk of imputing more smarts to Mark Lewis of EMC than he probably deserves (although he surely isn't dumb) this is EMC's way of getting even deeper into Dell's...
Recent Comments