Top Ten Coolest Enterprise Storage Flops
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage on 06. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
This is the second entry in my Top-Ten in Storage series.
Not every innovative product can succeed in the market, and no matter how good some ideas seem, they can fail to make much of an impact. The truth is, people buy solutions, not technologies.
This list includes products so cool, so ahead of their time, that [...]
Where is Linux in Storage?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything on 20. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
Marc Farley’s challenge of listing all the devices on our home networks got me thinking –I’ve got an awful lot of Linux devices, but all of them are infrastructure rather than interactive PCs. Of the 10 devices currently attached my home network, four are Linux based (two TiVos, a Linksys router, and Linksys NAS), three [...]
Storage from behind the great wall
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 18. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
Yes, folks, China is rising in storage industry. A while back, my good friend Marc Staimer suggested that Huawei might become the next great storage vendor. Well, Huawei’s joint venture with 3Com has now become 3Com’s unit in China, H3C. That’s right, Bob Metcalfe’s old company bought Huawei out of the venture [...]
Storage History: The 3Server
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage on 25. Jun, 2007 | View Comments
Being a history buff stuck in the storage industry, I’ve long had an interest in how we got where we are. So much of the storage industry is rooted in legacy, and we can learn much by knowing why things turned out the way they did.
I’d like to kick off a series of articles [...]
These computers are not junk!
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Everything, Terabyte home on 21. Jun, 2007 | View Comments
Marc Farley challenged us storage geeks to wave our junk flags and reveal just how many computers we have. Well, I’m really not sure… Let’s see – in order of usefulness…
Networked:
Dell XPS M1210 laptop (killer!) with 120GB internal and 500 GB Western Digital My Book backup drive
TiVo Series 3 with 250 GB (yeah [...]
