Category Archives: Market dynamics

IT as a service on the Cloud is not the end

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Ray

[Long post] Read another intriguing post by David Vellente at Wikibon today about the emergence of IT shops becoming service organizations to their industries using the cloud to hosting these services.  I am not in complete agreement with Dave but … Continue reading →

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Smart thermostats make for smarter grids

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Ray

We have been discussing off and on how smart power meters (see Smart metering data storage appetite) and intelligent sensors (see the Sensor cloud comes home) such as smart thermostats generate copious amounts of data.  Sensors and meters such as these … Continue reading →

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Server virtualization vs. storage virtualization

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Ray

One can only be perplexed by the seemingly overwelming adoption of server virtualization and contrast that with the ho-hum, almost underwelming adoption of storage virtualization.  Why is there this significant a difference? I think the problem is partly due to … Continue reading →

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Disk trends, revisited

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Ray

An interesting guest post on Claus’s Blog (Claus Mikkelsen of HDS) by Ian Vogelesang of HGST provided some technical/economic insights on why specific disk drives are more economically feasible than others. It’s a bit hard going and more technical than a … Continue reading →

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Commodity hardware debate heats up again

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Ray

A post by Chris M. Evans, in his The Storage Architect blog (Intel inside storage arrays) re-invigorated the discussion we had last year on commodity hardware always loses. But buried in the comments was one from Michael Hay (HDS) which pointed … Continue reading →

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1 on 1 auctions vs. person years of A/R time

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Ray

I have had this conversation before (and have blogged about it with Crowdsourcing business analyst …) where there is lots of time and effort (person years?) devoted to scheduling one-on-one meetings between analyst firms and corporate executives. I may be … Continue reading →

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SSD market dynamics

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Ray

Had a talk the other week with an storage executive about SSD and NAND cost trends.  It seemed that everyone thought that $/GB for SSD was going to overtake (be less costly) than enterprise class disk sometime in 2013.  But … Continue reading →

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When will disks become extinct?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Ray

Yesterday, it was announced that Hitachi General Storage Technologies (HGST) is being sold to Western Digital for $4.3B and after that there was much discussion in the tweeterverse about the end of enterprise disk as we know it.  Also, last … Continue reading →

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