An askance view of what's amazing, asinine or ahead in storage 
So, it’s been a busy old week or two in the land of fun and speculation – and, yes, when I say that, I’m talking storage! The last two Mondays have been dominated by ‘thin’ news – first Dell bids for 3PAR and then HP enters (at least publicly) the fray. As I write, each [...]
Having been off the blogging trail for a while, I’ve been aware that whenever I re-start, it had better be about something interesting and preferably important. After all you don’t want to appear to be giving too much emphasis to something of little consequence; that said of course, a great deal of electronic ink has already [...]
Much as I hate to start with an apology for the lengthy gap since my last post, I must clearly do so. For once, it’s nothing to do with a shortage of any opinions and ideas on my part, but simply has to do with a dramatic uptick in the general busy-ness of the business–and [...]
“Did you find everything you need?” You’ll often be asked this at a retail checkout. I guess that a particular grocery not having precisely what you want is understandable; maybe a specific artisan cheese or a type of orange juice–with medium pulp, half-concentrate half-not, with light calcium and/or Riboflavin (no, really, when did OJ go all designer? )–has [...]
Although there’s plenty of high-tech business around where I live in Colorado (hence the ‘Silicon Mountain’ moniker), it’s clearly nothing like the Bay Area. So it’s hard not to be a tad more personally interested – often with friends affected – when the ebbs and flows of business affect IT vendors in my backyard. Storage [...]
It’s always good to know that the world is changing and, hopefully, improving. So it was with interest that I heard that Kathrin Winkler – EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer – participated earlier today at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. The discussion focused on the relationship between energy efficiency and [...]
NetApp’s earnings last week were certainly impressive – beating Wall St expectations handily, driving operating margins and even raising guidance. It was certainly a highlight that emphasized some refreshingly improved storage results over the last few weeks. How did NetApp do it? Of course, everyone at NetApp will talk about beating the competition, but a somewhat subtle version of [...]
Over the last few weeks, Steve Duplessie’s blog has been discussing some key elements that determine the relative success or failure of start-ups. It’s his public way of forcing himself to [effectively] write a book, and it’s an excellent–and continuing–series that makes good reading for anyone in this business. One of his points covered the great [...]
Hello, whether you’re a new reader or you’ve followed me across from my previous ‘Mark My Words’ blog. Welcome to the new blog or, at least a new name for the blog. All my prior posts are transferring with me, but I wanted to change the name in order to signal a change in emphasis for [...]
Those of you that saw today’s ‘Daily Truth’ (where, on ESG’s front page, we post some nugget of wisdom or insight) will have seen that 52% of the US end-users that we surveyed late last year either already use or plan to use iSCSI. Not bad for a storage protocol that was dismissed by some as the [...]
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