Keys to spotting a flawed President – before it’s too late
With the flameouts of Ed Zander at Motorola and a number of hedge-fund managers whose "rocket-science" CDOs have brought the world's financial system to the brink of ruin - oh, and the current US President - this free article at the Wall Street Journal is apropos....
OpenSolaris: the universal storage platform?
There's a dark horse coming up on the outside Isn't Sun - and Solaris - almost dead? No and they're showing quite a bit of life in the storage arena. It is amazing what a $12 billion company can do with a unique strategy and deep engineering smarts. One big change:...
The high-end storage meltdown
Expect to hear a lot more about the SMB segment over the next 6 months. Because the high-end market is sucking wind. NetApp and EMC are both reporting problems in the high-end. HP and IBM don't break out as much detail but I'm sure they are feeling the chill as well....
Grid is dead
Was it ever alive? Techies have been excited about grid computing for years. The rest of the world never caught on. They probably never will. Who killed grid? A slide from Sun's recent HPC meeting at SC'07 implicated marketing: The Grid is Dead... Term falling into...
Adva & Sepaton price lists now online
Who the heck is Adva? A couple of months ago a commenter asked for pricing info on Adva. I'd never heard of them, but as part of some web site work I checked into them. Turns out they are a fast-growing German-based company specializing in metro-are optical Wavelength...
Linux needs Open Source Marketing
The limits of open source engineering Hang with engineers for a while and griping about marketing is inevitable. The 3 Margarita lunches, the plush globetrotting, the hotties in Marcom and worst of all, they don't understand the product. Next bench marketing Many...
Nexenta next up on OSS storage
Nexenta is the next open source storage company - and the first to use ZFS. They are aiming at the enterprise storage market for 2nd tier storage. I talked to Evan Powell, the CEO last week, after a StorageMojo reader and Nexenta user, Joe Little, tipped me off to the...
The Hulk goes Hawaiian
Joe Tucci let slip, on purpose, that EMC will be coming out with a cluster storage system for backup and archive purposes at a press event this week. Hulk is the code name for the hardware. Maui is the software. Expect to see large green guys in grass skirts at the...
Flash drives not worth the candle in notebooks
I wrote about my testing of notebook disk drive power usage on ZDnet yesterday (see How much does a flash disk increase battery life?). I pulled the 160 GB WD Scorpio out of my MacBook and ran it on wall power through a Kill-a-watt meter to better understand power...
Seagate ships infected drives
The China syndrome pt. II According to Engadget some Maxtor-branded Seagate drives shipped with a handy little virus: . . . drives produced by a company sub-contract manufacturer located in China were reportedly sent out with the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah program already...
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