Archive for July, 2009
I guess we suspected it would be a busy year on the acquisition front - and two notable purchases in just four days is certainly proof of that. Following hot on the heels of HP snapping up IBRIX last Friday, comes today's news from LSI that it is purchasing ONStor. ...
I've been harping on the fact that sooner or later (mostly later, unfortunately) all data is going to have to be encrypted if it's worth anything - to anyone.
Most of us have been burned at least once by now - having our personal information stolen or lost. It's happened about ...
You're deliberately not using what you bought. Because we're so used to it, people think that's how it has to be,
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I have just finished a call with Adam Hawley, Oracle’s Director of VM Product Management, the guy who owns the whole Oracle Virtualization story and technology. It got me thinking about the Hypervisor marketplace, the players, product strengths and weaknesses as well as ability to execute. My colleage and friend, ...
I am doing some work on understanding the size of the market for Data Center Scale systems. Sytems like SGI (Rackable) Ice Cube, Verari’s FOREST, HP’s POD, Sun’s Container and AST-Global’s dual container solution. Talking around the market my sense is that although the unit value is quite high ($4-$6M ...
I'm not surprised that trending and the ability to perform analysis ranked highly,
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“The biggest overall issue in storage to deal with first is visibility,” observes Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, a leading technology industry analyst firm.
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A two-and-a-half (or so) minute take we filmed last Friday with more thoughts on HP's IBRIX acquisition - for those of you who'd rather watch or listen than read!
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We're working on a paper to explain the details, but wanted to share the theory. The specifics vary, but the functions are pretty generic. IT looks like this:
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The issue is one of conflicting priorities between functional groups within IT itself. Their motivations are different. For example, ...
Just had a quick meeting with a friend, who shall remain nameless, who spawned what I think is a great idea.
He works for an IT Tech vendor and gets to meet plenty of interesting IT pros - but always under the umbrella of trying to sell something.
IT folks are smart; they ...
