Around the water cooler, Strategic storage vendorsThe news today was about a huge storage networking acquisition by Brocade, but another
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software as a service, Storage managed service providersThe biggest difference between the last time S3 crashed and this time, in my...
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NAS, small business storage, Strategic storage vendorsIn the course of observing the festivities on NetApp and EMC blogs, I came across a sneaky little blog post/announcement from EMC about its LifeLine consumer storage product. According to The Storage Anarchist...
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disk drivesSun yesterday identfied Samsung as its SSD supplier, solving at least part of the mystery around the source for its Flash drives. But Sun's systems group senior director Graham Lovell says that Samsung...
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data compliance and archiving, NAS, Strategic storage vendorsSince he sold Softek to IBM and was appointed CEO of British-based optical storage vendor Plasmon last November, Steven Murphy has had a tough row to hoe. Plasmon is one of the few survivors--if not the only survivor--of the optical storage market, which historically has been stunted by usability...
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Perhaps her greatest accomplishment has been to not only survive, but thrive, in the macho male world of EMC. Joe Tucci is an intelligent, honorable human being - I know firsthand - but it will take a long time before sexism no longer exists in this industry. Diane Greene beat the...
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Around the water cooler, VMwareA day later after the fact, is has become clear that VMware didn't dump CEO Diane Greene because of personal differences between her and EMC executives. The final straw was a business dispute with EMC brass. Sources close to EMC say the issue that cost Greene her job was she...
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Around the water cooler, VMwareLast week we ran a story on SearchStorage.com by Beth Pariseau about friction between VMware and storage vendors as more storage gets connected to virtual machines. Because the story focused on technology and...
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Data storage managementI don't see the terms ILM or Data Lifecycle Management mentioned much anymore on the Interwebs. Odd that we have this many regulatory pressures, and the one thing that could actually save us some money, time and stress when dealing with those pressures hasn't been seen in headlines for at least a...
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