Category Archives: Market dynamics

1 on 1 auctions vs. person years of A/R time

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Ray

I have had this conversation before (and have blogged about it with Crowdsourcing business analyst …) where there is lots of time and effort (person years?) devoted to scheduling one-on-one meetings between analyst firms and corporate executives. I may be … Continue reading →

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SSD market dynamics

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Ray

Had a talk the other week with an storage executive about SSD and NAND cost trends.  It seemed that everyone thought that $/GB for SSD was going to overtake (be less costly) than enterprise class disk sometime in 2013.  But … Continue reading →

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When will disks become extinct?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Ray

Yesterday, it was announced that Hitachi General Storage Technologies (HGST) is being sold to Western Digital for $4.3B and after that there was much discussion in the tweeterverse about the end of enterprise disk as we know it.  Also, last … Continue reading →

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Tape vs. Disk, the saga continues

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Ray

Was on a call late last month where Oracle introduced their latest generation T1000C tape system (media and drive) holding 5TB native (uncompressed) capacity. In the last 6 months I have been hearing about the coming of a 3TB SATA … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to holographic storage?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Ray

Although InPhase Technologies and a few other startups had taken a shot at holographic storage over time, there has not been any recent innovation here that I can see. Ecosystems matter The real problem (which InPhase was trying to address) … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing business analyst 1 on 1 scheduling with executives

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Ray

Just got back from a conference with business analyst meetings and while there I talked with a number of analyst relations people in the audience about what it takes to pull these meeting together.  I was astounded by the effort … Continue reading →

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Why cloud, why now?

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Ray

I have been struggling for sometime now to understand why cloud computing and cloud storage have suddenly become so popular.  We have previously discussed some of cloud problems (here and here) but we have never touched on why cloud has … Continue reading →

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Punctuated equilibrium for business success

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Ray

Coming out of the deep recession of 2007-2009 I am struck by how closely business success during recession looks like what ecologists call punctuated equilibrium.  As Wikipedia defines it, punctuated equilibria, “… is a model for discontinuous tempos of change … Continue reading →

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