Tape Vendor Admits Disk Faster, Better, CHEAPER!
Fighting rear-guard marketing actions - protecting a declining product or technology to keep the high-margin revenue coming in - isn't much fun, but it sure is profitable. Especially in an area as conservative as storage. So it is a big deal when someone quits trying....
Efficient Resource Allocation in SOA’s – Pt I
Why do CIO’s have the shortest average job tenures of any C-level executive? The simple answer is because users (Line-of-Business (LOB) managers) aren’t happy with them or the performance of their organizations. Many issues contribute to this situation, but the...
Consumerization of Infrastructure
In the Cnet article Gartner: Prepare for consumer-led IT about a recent Gartner Symposium, the world's largest IT consultantcy sounded the alarm for the F1000 glass house attendees: . . . Gartner's director of global research, Peter Sondergaard, warned conference...
Google’s Price for Bad Marketing: $1.65 Billion
Everyone else is writing about GooTube today. Yet I think my thoughts are original enough to be worth reading. Another storage solution wrapped in an easy-to-use application, like iTunes, YouTube's founders and venture capitalists have struck it big. Each of the...
1 Version or Many: Which “Version” Do You Want?
I signed up for the ZFS discussion group over on OpenSolaris.org and have been following a fascinating thread about a versioning file system. The discussion has been hot for several days. There is intelligent conversation about data preservation: CDP, snapshots,...
The StorageMojo.com Podcast
Actually, it is a Gear6 StorageMojo.com podcast which stars moi. This isn't a happytalk Gear6 commercial. In fact we don't say one word about Gear6 as I still have no idea what they are planning. You'll get my opinion on Gear6's product when they go public later this...
Sto’Mo’s 3 Minute Guide to Electronic Discovery
Fear mongering over the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) requirements for electronic discovery has already begun with an article Storage Goes to Law School. As December 1, 2006 implementation date approaches expect the hype to rise. The "buy my widget or go...
RAID: The Visual Guide
Update I removed the link because the owner of the site substituted something disgusting for the cute RAID guide. Sorry, I've killed the link. Thanks to Luke for alerting me. Now for something completely different: The Illustrated Guide to RAID on one webpage. In the...
Utilization vs Cost: The Capacity Illusion
The customer disconnect between what they need - I/O - and what they buy - gigabytes - is boiling over in the storage world. Hitachi Data Systems' always thoughtful Hu Yoshida had a couple of posts whose juxtaposition crystalized the problem. The first post noted, in...
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Physicist Niels Bohr said that. But you don't have to be a Nobel prize-winning genius to know how true it is. Marketing people don't try to screw up new products, because it is so easy even when you are doing your level best. It is just really hard to build a model of...
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