The Difference Between “Integration” and “Frankenstein”
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT on 05. Feb, 2009 | Comments
When is a solution integrated and when is it a Frankenstein-like mashup of tangled tech? Apparently, that line is crossed when it’s your competitor’s offering…
In my time in the storage industry, I’ve seen enough franken-storage come and go to make me skeptical whenever a new “integrated” solution is announced. But a lot of this stuff [...]
Western Digital + Fujitsu = More Competition for Seagate and Hitachi
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 02. Oct, 2008 | Comments
Western Digital may purchase Fujitsu’s hard disk drive development and manufacturing assets, getting closer to market-leader, Seagate, with greater manufacturing capacity and access to the laptop OEM market
Specialized Server/Enterprise Hard Drives
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 07. Aug, 2007 | Comments
Continuing my overview of the specialized hard drive market, we move on to the world of enterprise hard disk drives. These are performance monsters, with nearly all falling above the 10,000 RPM line that defines “exotic” in the desktop space. They also have a wide variety of interfaces, including parallel and serial [...]
Storage from behind the great wall
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 18. Jul, 2007 | 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 [...]
