EMC has Ph.Ds? – Part II
Last week I realized that I hadn't seen any research papers from EMC technologists, despite cruising they highways, byways and deep weeds of storage research for some time. I know they have smart guys. What are they doing? They're salesmen, making 800 large. Just...
DH Hell
Totally off topic: Buy great chair on Ebay. Shipped Monday on DHL. Thanks to massive storage and distributed networks, I knew it was in Phoenix - a two hour drive from where I live - Tuesday morning. Fantastic! Tuesday morning: "Delivery arranged, no details...
Identity theft gets worse
A SWAT team busts open your door, grabs all your computer gear, and arrests you for child pornography That would be a swell day, eh? Oh, and then you lose your job, your friends shun you and strangers feel free to beat you to death. Or maybe you just decide to end it...
Visions vs Roadmaps
Walter Purvis, my very analytical colleague at Data Mobility Group, wrote in to call me on an apparent contradiction: Yesterday you were flogging EMC for “the lack of a vision, or goal, that EMC is aiming for… where is EMC investing its R&D dollars to create the...
What if EMC held an analyst conference and nobody came?
My brief screed about, IMHO, EMC's braindead policy of requiring analysts to sign an NDA to attend analyst briefings, touched a nerve. I'm new to the analyst game. I don't know anything about it. For all I know, almost every company insists that analysts sign NDAs...
EMC has Ph.Ds? – Part I
An NDA for analysts? As a newly minted analyst I was looking forward to going to EMC's annual analyst meeting, getting industrial strength marketing smoke blown at me. Then I found they insist on a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Let me get this straight: the analysts job...
Who is this guy?
Stay too long in storage and this could happen to you A buddy of mine from DEC, Kirby Wadsworth, has started a started a blog that I'll be watching. Normally I don't blog about blogging or bloggers - drinking one's own bath water and all that - so to what does Kirby...
What a web business wants from storage
I'm occasionally accused of holding up Google as the storage of the future. That's wrong: I've noted from the first that the Google File System and BigTable aren't suitable for the enterprise, or even for most other Internet Data Centers. My real point is that the...
Secure Erase: data security you already own
Over at Storage Bits, my new ZDnet blog, I wrote about Secure Erase, a feature that Walter Purvis at Data Mobility Group told me about. Secure Erase (SE) excited so much attention over there that I thought I'd take a more leisurely stroll through it here. Free,...
Google and Oracle: a death-match made in heaven
If you're bored The Google vs Microsoft story is so stupid it bores me to tears (see Googzilla vs Microsofthra: The Gathering Squall). So it perks me up no end to see an actual story of real conflict emerging between the world's most successful internet advertising...
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