ILM is Bunk
The forces of flaky marketing have been pushing mightily on the concept of Information Lifecycle Management. With much heavy lifting the marketing mavens have gotten ILM fairly high on the Hype Cycle. I keep wondering when someone will wake up to the simple fact that...
Amnesiac PCs: A Product Whose Time Will Never Come
The latest from the Bad Ideas Never Die department: a number of vendors are postulating a really cheap PC that is, get this, network-based. Back in the dark ages of coal-fired mainframes, these things used to be called terminals, and they weren't that popular even...
HP’s Storage Grid-lock: panic-stricken execs promise fix in four years
HP's storage shortfall this past quarter has Carly pulling out the stops to save one of HP's few high-margin non-printer businesses. Firing executives, check. Inspirational speech to resellers, check. Roll out ambitious product roadmap for delivery in 2008, check....
Buy me! No, buy me! The Castle Anthrax virgins & Oracle
A shiver of delight ran though the ranks of small software companies last week at the news of the failure of the justice department's case against the Oracle acquisition of Peoplesoft. Great! Maybe we'll get bought!! But the willing virgins of Castle Anthrax have...
Storage & Cosmology
The storage Big Bang began with the first electronic digital computers which used modifiable electronic storage, such as mercury delay tubes, CRT storage, magneto-restrictive delay lines or such. Unlike earlier storage -- plugboards and punchcards and papertape --...
Hulking Data Systems
Saw the announcement of the HDS TagmaStore (did I get that right -- where do they get these names?). Two million IOPS? I think we can officially announce that array performance has now exceeded any conceivable application requirement. If you follow the Innovator's...
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