Tuesday Humor
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Comic courtesy of xkcd.com Via Beth Pariseau from TechTarget. No related posts.
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Comic courtesy of xkcd.com Via Beth Pariseau from TechTarget. No related posts.
Pondering Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Friday, September 25th, 2009Currently the twittersphere and bloggosphere is actively discussing Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The conversation was triggered by a post by Hu Yoshida from HDS, and I wanted to share my thoughts. One of the most interesting responses was this one by Nigel Poulton where he explains the infrastructure required for ...
Was EMC’s acquisition of Data Domain a sign of desperation?
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009A blogger over at Seeking Alpha makes this case. He argues that EMC must make acquisitions for growth and that the excessive price paid for Data Domain deal is a sign of desperation. To summarize the post, the author suggests that the growth in EMC’s core storage business is slowing and ...
W. Curtis Preston Now with TechTarget
Thursday, February 19th, 2009About a week ago, Curtis posted on his blog that he is joining TechTarget as an Executive Editor which essentially means that he will continue to present at various events. He is still an independent consultant and can keep working on his other projects including his Mr. Backup Blog and ...
SEPATON Announcement
Thursday, February 12th, 2009SEPATON recently announced fourth quarter results in this release. I am not going to repeat the content here, but wanted to highlight that the company had a record Q4 and achieved an important milestone. I am excited about the prospects for SEPATON in 2009. Don’t get me wrong, 2009 ...
Surviving A Down Economy – A vendor Perspective
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008The outlook on the economy continues to be less than stellar. The National Bureau of Economic Research formally declared that we are in a recession. Thanks guys for stating the obvious! Tough times create difficulties for everyone. We have already seen vendors including NetApp, Quantum and ...
10 Things I Am Thankful For
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008The Thanksgiving holiday is a time to reflect on things that you are thankful for and so I figured that this would be a great topic for my one blog post this week. 1. That the Somali pirates have not hijacked SEPATON although Bloomberg suggests in a humorous press release that Citibank ...
How a lack of innovation put Overland under water
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008I wanted to post a quick commentary on Overland Data. I recently ran across this post over at The Register that discusses the fact that Overland Data is at risk of being delisted from the NASDAQ due to a stock price below $1. (Ticker: OVRL, currently $.45) In a past life, I ...
AboutRestore.com recognition
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008W. Curtis Preston the author of the Mr. Backup Blog recently posted an article about the blogs that he frequents. I was honored that he recognized AboutRestore.com along with blogs from other major vendors. Curtis mentioned his frustration with the comment filtering policies on some blogs and I wanted to ...
Exchange deduplication ratio guarantee
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Scott over at EMC recently posted his thoughts about deduplication ratios and how they vary widely. I agree with his assessment that compression ratios, change rates and retention are key ingredients in deduplication ratios. However, he makes a global statement, “If you don't know those three things, you ...