Welcome Omneon Video Networks
A new addition to StorageMojo.com Price Lists A reader turned me on to them today. I see a number of the guys at Omneon worked at Tektronix, the company I sold to back when I was a dewy-eyed DEC salesman. Tek's Grass Valley Group was a long-time leader in broadcast...
So What’s With Data Mobility Group?
I am. As of a couple of weeks ago I am working with Data Mobility Group as an analyst. DMG is a small analyst firm that advises clients on a variety of information management and storage topics. They are also very flexible about where one works, so being in a small...
Whipping Out the Checkbook for Isilon
With the IPO completed, interest in Isilon among StorageMojo readers has been growing. So I thought I'd take a gander at their pricing and see how it stacks up. I'm fast tracking this project - doing the writing and analysis concurrently - so when you get to the end...
Flash VaporDrives: Promises, Promises
With the latest crypto-announcement of a 128 GB, 2.5" SATA flash drive, my patience with the flash disk folks is at an end. They aren't shipping flash drives and, as near as I can tell, they have no intention of doing so for quite some time. Last April Samsung...
Choosing Network Attached Storage For SOHO
One of the wonderful things about the storage industry is how rapidly prices fall and new technologies become available to more people. What is less wonderful is that as this sophisticated technology moves down market, it keeps the same terminology and mindset from...
Enterprise IT: The Elephant’s Graveyard
The elephant's graveyard is a metaphor for a place where old ideas go to die. For IT it is the flipside of the consumerization of IT. The seductive glass house As Sun's troubles over the last few years have emphasized, enterprise IT is a Venus flytrap market: once you...
Lawyers, Justice and RAID
One of my favorite storage bloggers is NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz. He's thoughtful, wry and, most important, he doesn't spend much time pimping NetApp. I particularly enjoyed his recent post about lawyers and the legal system Lawyers Aren't Evil—Fairness and...
Brocade Buys Into IP SANs
Brocade announced it is buying Silverback Systems, makers of a low-cost IP accelerator chip Silverback has been getting some traction, as I learned when I had dinner with a couple of Silverback worthies at SNW. My pity turned to respect When I agreed to meet with...
SSD Price War Begins
Digi Times is reporting that Ritek, the Taiwan-based optical disk maker, announced a 32 GB flash drive under its RiDATA brand for OEM sale. The cool thing: looks like they are charging ~$10/GB for the 16 GB version, although the article isn't clear on pricing. A war...
Apple’s Enterprise Strategy
The story Steve ISN'T telling at MacWorld Buddhists believe that desire is the cause of suffering. I can't speak to Steve Job's religion, but it is clear he refuses to suffer for the enterprise. As one ex-Applet (what does one call them?) stated Steve doesn't [pull]...
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