Author Archives: steven

I was not surprised to read this article on Byte and Switch today. I have long thought that performance and Benchmark numbers were suspect in the storage and networking world. Highlights of the article: * Driven by a general sense … Continue reading →

Over the holiday weekend I got together with a bunch of my friends who own businesses or are executives in companies. We had a chance to talk about what they see in their businesses and there was not a lot … Continue reading →

According to an article by Chris Mellor : The Enterprise Strategy Group is forcasting a sixfold growth in file archive capacity, from a little over 10,000PB in 2008 to 62,000PB in 2012 This seems to one of the few bright … Continue reading →

Over the last couple of weeks I was visiting customers internationally and I was surprised at how many customers are trying out www.isilon.com . The reason they are trying Isilon is price, or at least that is what I was … Continue reading →

Over the last couple of weeks I have been traveling to visit customers in many locations. Can you guess where I was last week from the picture? Our domestic and international customers are looking at how to squeeze more out … Continue reading →

Often the trade press is filled with regurgitated press releases which don’t give a very good analysis of the companies and strategies that are winning customers and markets. But I just read a very good article that I would suggest … Continue reading →

According to many analysts the enterprise storage market has been shrinking and NetApp and EMC are slugging it out for market share. The NAS (network attached storage) market declined 6.7 percent year over year, led by EMC with 39.0 percent … Continue reading →

Data Domain may be the most popular company in the Storage niche in the last few days. In hard economic times it pays for customers to want to save money by increasing their storage efficiency and de-duplication makes a lot … Continue reading →

Over the last week many people have asked my opinion of this acquisition. I was not surprised that NetApp purchased Data Domain, I know quite a few former NetApp folks who work there, and it will be interesting to see … Continue reading →

The EMC World show was great. From a trade show marketing point of view it was probably one of the best shows we have ever attended. The attendees understood the storage industry and were looking for answers to their storage … Continue reading →