Tag Archives: Apple

Future iBook pricing

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Ray

All the news about iPad and iBooks app got me thinking. There’s been much discussion on e-book pricing but no one is looking at what to charge for items other than books.  I look at this as something like what … Continue reading →

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Is M and A the only way to grow?

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Ray

Oracle buys Sun, EMC buys Data Domain, Cisco buys Tandberg, it seems like every month another major billion dollar acquisition occurs.  Part of this is because of the recent economic troubles, which now values many companies at the lowest they … Continue reading →

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Chart of the Month

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Ray

The chart to the left was sent out in last months SCI newsletter and shows the throughput attained by various storage systems when running the SPECsfs(R) 2008 CIFS and NFS benchmarks. The scatter-plot shows data for NAS systems that have … Continue reading →

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