May 27, 2008 10:15 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water cooler,
Strategic storage vendorsThe Chinese technology market isn't up-and-coming anymore, it's already here. And with a billion-plus people looking to participate in a capitalist experiment, combined with cheap (though rising) labor costs and a less regulated manufacturing industry, it's a force to be reckoned with.
American...
April 18, 2008 12:31 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water cooler,
storage technology researchTwo press releases caught my eye this week that aren't exactly earth-shattering, but got me thinking about the way the storage market is changing and widening.
First, SanDisk revealed that its flash cards are...
March 28, 2008 2:26 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water coolerLast August I wrote about Swiss research facility CERN and its plan to store petabytes of data from its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) device on commodity NAS and in tape silos for scalability and cost savings. A month ago, it came to my attention that some people thought the collection of that data...
March 13, 2008 1:46 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
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Data storage managementThe other day I blogged about an update to the "Digital Universe" report EMC sponsored with IDC, which amended estimates of the size of said digital universe...
March 6, 2008 10:32 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water coolerIt doesn't necessarily have anything to do with storage, but I got a chuckle out of this story from Reuters UK today about a lawsuit filed against IBM:
A small Japanese bank has slapped International...
February 6, 2008 1:42 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water coolerI'm sure any number of you can come up with witty figurative responses to that, but I actually mean it literally.
Back in August I did a case study on CERN, the world's largest physics...
January 28, 2008 4:19 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water cooler,
Strategic storage vendorsAs a storage reporter who's also a fanatical Red Sox fan, I'm in good position to comment on EMC's latest marketing move: the agreement with the Boston...
December 12, 2007 12:12 PM
Posted by: mwright16
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Data storage managementOver the last few weeks, storage insiders have been abuzz with speculation that a merger between HP and Symantec is imminent. Whether such talks are occurring, I can not definitively say, but if it does occur, the whole corporate world might as well kiss goodbye any hopes it had of creating and...
November 13, 2007 9:43 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water coolerImagine you're a down-on-her-luck new divorcee looking to get back on her feet. The year is 1999. You manage to find a job as an in-house masseusse at a little Silicon-Valley dotcom startup for $450 a week and stock options for a company nobody's really heard much about yet.
Eight years...
