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 functionality. [...]
Seagate Going to China?
August 27, 2007 By 2 Comments
Note: This didn’t happen. It was merely a rumor. 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 [...]
Larry Boucher: The Future Is Mine! (in 2009…)
August 23, 2007 By 4 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 didn’t use [...]
50% of UK IT Managers Must Be Crazy!
August 22, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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? What’s wrong [...]
Five Foskett Feeds!
August 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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 Posts [...]
Toot Toot: Email Archiving e-Book
August 17, 2007 By 2 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 more after [...]
Online Storage? Hardly!
August 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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
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XenSource Selects Citrix Over IPO
August 15, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
3PAR Warms Up the IPO Bullpen
August 15, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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. Good luck, [...]
