Monthly Archives: August 2006

The industry consolidates a little bit more. BOSTON (Reuters) – Data storage equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. said on Tuesday that it would buy McData Corp. for $4.61 per share, or $713 million. That’s a 48 percent premium to … Continue reading →

The main stream computer magazines are asking the same questions we have raised in this blog. The NetApp StoreVault offering is the same beast. Sure, you can get a 1 TB unit that does snapshots for under $5K, but looking … Continue reading →

NetApp’s Cosmic Failures A regular reader who recognizes that our team is very savvy about NetApp called me and asked if I knew about NetApp’s Cosmic Failures. I thought he meant Cosmic Features. But as I learned, he meant failures. … Continue reading →