This entry is really just an opportunity for me to share an intriguing, somewhat academic, but nonetheless fascinating, conundrum, and to pose a question.

Here goes – how do you define ‘mid-range storage’? Or, more accurately, how should we all define ‘mid-range storage’? I pose the question because I’d love to get some input. The issue has arisen on multiple occasions recently, and what seemed obvious quickly became somewhat bemusing. Maybe it’s like pornography – you can’t really define it but you know it when you see it?

Is it by size alone (in which case what size?) or is it by the size of the organization? Both seem artificially prescriptive. There is the proxy of certain functions and there is the proxy of price-bands but both can be shifting foundations. Maybe I should change the question – is there such a thing as mid-range storage? Is it about reliability? Degree of usability? Or is it because it says so in the PowerPoint and brochure? I’m as guilty as anyone in using the term, but the lines seems to be more blurred every day. We’ll call it a middle-aged crisis that I need to know more!

Answers in a mid-length email or on a mid-sized postcard please…..

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