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Is M and A the only way to grow?
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
Posted in Corporate growth, Strategy, Visionary leadershp
Tagged Apple, HP, IBM, iPhone, iPod, new product development, new product marketing, visionary leadership
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Latest SPC-2 results – chart of the month
Latest SPC-2 (Storage Performance Council-2) benchmark resultschart displaying the top ten in aggregate MBPS(TM) broken down into Large File Processing (LFP), Large Database Query (LDQ) and Video On Demand (VOD) throughput results. One problem with this chart is that it … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage performance
Tagged Benchmarks, Chart of the month, Database transfers, file processing, HDS, HDS USP-V, HP, HP XP24000, IBM, IBM DS5300, IBM SVC, MB/s, MBPS, SPC-2, Storage Performance Council, Sun, Sun 6780, video on demand
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ESRP results over 5K mbox-chart of the month
In our quarterly study on Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) results we show a number of charts to get a good picture of storage subsystem performance under Exchange workloads. The two that are of interest to most data centers are … Continue reading
Ibrix reborn as HP X9000 Network Storage
On Wednesday 4 November, HP announced a new network storage system based on the Ibrix Fusion file system called the X9000. Three versions were announced: X9300 gateway appliance which can be attached to SAN storage (HP EVA, MSA, P4000, or … Continue reading
Posted in File Storage, Storage, Storage Features, Storage performance
Tagged CIFS, Extreme Data Storage, Fusion File System, HP, HP Network Storage, HP X9000, Ibrix, NFS, SO/CFS, X9300, X9320, X9720
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Repositioning of tape
In my past life, I worked for a dominant tape vendor. Over the years, we had heard a number of times that tape was dead. But it never happened. BTW, it’s also not happening today. Just a couple of weeks … Continue reading
The price of quality
At HPTechDay this week we had a tour of the EVA test lab, in the south building of HP’s Colorado Springs Facility. I was pretty impressed and I have seen more than my fair share of labs in my day. … Continue reading
Why SO/CFS, Why Now
Why all the interest in Scale-out/Cluster File Systems (SO/CFS) and why now? Why now is probably easiest to answer, valuations are down. NetApp is migrating GX to their main platform, IBM continues to breath life in GPFS, HP buys IBRIX, … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage Features
Tagged Cloud Storage, Clustering, DataDirect Networks, HP, IBM, NetApp
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Norton Online Backup ships with HP computers
Symantec announced today that Norton Online Backup software will be shipping with HP PCs and Laptops. Norton Online Backup is a cloud storage solution which can be used to backup your data on your PC. Norton Online currently has about … Continue reading
Posted in Storage
Tagged Cloud Storage, EMC, HP, Mozy, Norton Online Backup, Symantec
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