IBM Warms to the Compact Storage Market
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 28. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
With yesterday’s release of both an iSCSI version of it’s entry-level DS3300 and a complete, Microsoft Simple SAN-certified DS3400 solution, IBM is bringing the love to the … umm … well … compact (?) end of the storage market. See, we can’t call it “low-end” because these devices are decidedly not “low-end” in their [...]
Seagate Going to China?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 27. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
The stock market was alive with rumors that Seagate might be bought by an unnamed Chinese company, as reported in the New York Times, among others. This comes after a week of insider whispers about a possible tieup between Seagate and memory-makers, Micron or SanDisk, itself a Seagate spin-off. It seems that the [...]
Larry Boucher: The Future Is Mine! (in 2009…)
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage on 23. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Beth Pariseau over at SearchStorage.com has another great interview, this time with “Mr. SCSI”, Larry Boucher of Alacritech. Despite being early to market with TCP offload engine (TOE) Ethernet NICs, and iSCSI HBAs in particular, the company has been less successful than many would have expected. This is probably because most folks just [...]
50% of UK IT Managers Must Be Crazy!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 22. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
OK, so let me get this straight. A recent study in the UK shows that 94% of IT managers in the UK regularly buy more storage than they need, 38% of all storage is unused, and 69% find storage management increasingly difficult. Yet only 44% feel that they shouldn’t have to do this? [...]
Five Foskett Feeds!
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Personal, Terabyte home on 17. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
I’ve decided to add additional sub-feeds to my blog for those who don’t care about one topic or another. If you’re currently subscribed, this means nothing to you since the current feed is a super-set containing all posts. But if you want just a subset, read on!
There are now five Foskett feeds!
All [...]
Toot Toot: Email Archiving e-Book
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 17. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
I’ve been working with a team at Contoural on an e-Book for TechTarget on the topic of email archiving, sponsored by Symantec. Now that four chapters are posted, I thought I would mention it. I’ve written two more chapters, which will probably be posted in the coming months, and will be working on [...]
Online Storage? Hardly!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 16. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Robin Harris blogged today about Google’s pay-for-storage service, and he hit the nail on the head. It (and pretty much every other current online storage service) is nearly worthless to most folks because it lacks one simple thing: A usable interface. Set aside Google’s traditionally horrid (lack of) marketing and you’re left with a service [...]
A Seat At the Table
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 16. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
One of Mr. Toigo’s readers posted a thoughtful question about why IT isn’t more strategic in their thinking. I started writing this as a comment there, but it got longer and longer and I liked it more and more, so I put it here instead!
I think this lack of strategic thinking is a reaction [...]
XenSource Selects Citrix Over IPO
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 15. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
As the virtualization world turns, hot on the heels of VMware’s successful IPO (it’s riding over $50 today), many might wonder about that company’s only major competitor. Well, the answer is here: XenSource is being acquired by client-side virtualizer, Citrix! Word is it’s a $500 million deal. Not bad for little XenSource!
This looks like a [...]
3PAR Warms Up the IPO Bullpen
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 15. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Wonder no more – 3PAR will hit the street sometime at some price to raise some money so they can do something. That’s right, their vague initial S-1 was announced yesterday. About the only thing we do know about 3PAR’s IPO is that it’s being handled jointly by Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. [...]
