Tag Archives: hardware differentiation

Commodity hardware always loses

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Ray

A recent post by Stephen Foskett has revisted a blog discussion that Chuck Hollis and I had on commodity vs. special purpose hardware.  It’s clear to me that commodity hardware is a losing proposition for the storage industry and for … Continue reading →

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Better storage through hardware

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Ray

Chuck Hollis from EMC wrote a post last week on Storage is software about how hardware parts are becoming commoditized and so highly functional that future storage differentiation will only come from software.  I commented that hardware differentiation is also becoming … Continue reading →

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