What could be more appropriate?
HP's lackluster showing in The Info Pro's survey - see yesterday's post - reminded me that I'd written about HP shortly after after I'd started blogging (see HP's Storage Grid-lock: panic-stricken execs promise fix in four years).
Here's a quote from the September 2004 post:
HP’s storage ... ...
A recent study by The Info Pro research firm suggests that some seismic shifts are underway. Is EMC losing top-of-mind recognition in the data center? Are mid-size enterprises more likely to embrace new technology?
In an article in Data Storage Connection, TIP talks about some of its findings from ... ...
No, this isn't about pork bellies
In just the last few weeks EMC and IBM have announced their intentions to offer commodity server-based storage. EMC with Hulk/Maui and IBM with XIV.
Sun already offers its Thumper product, a high-density server and storage chassis with 48 disk drives, at prices competitive with commodity ... ...
About time
I'm in Silicon Valley for a few days. So I'll keep this brief.
EMC is pulling out the stops. First Hulk/Maui clusters and now putting flash SSDs in the Symm. They are positioning it as technology leadership, which it isn't, but it is marketing leadership. I'm impressed.
SSDs have been ... ...
Enough of Google's bathtub brew
IBM's purchase of XIV makes it official: cluster storage is on a roll.
XIV's website could have been ripped from the webpages of StorageMojo:
. . . enterprise-class storage systems typically comprise proprietary, special-purpose hardware, such as backplanes, shared memory architecture, and disk shelves. Huge amounts of resources ... ...