Archive for August, 2010
All this new interest in getting thinner
Posted in Storage Economics, Storage Software on Aug 27, 2010 No Comments »
Based upon the latest round of acquisition activity in our industry, it’s fascinating to me how – all of a sudden – the IT and business world have a new appetite for ‘clouds’ and ‘thinly provisioned storage’ and all the buzz with this technology. For those of us who have played in this space for [...]
Three-way correlation and commitment
Posted in Storage Economics, Storage Software on Aug 12, 2010 2 Comments »
In the past I have written about the correlation to costs (savings) and activities to reduce the costs.
How to avoid being fat, dumb and not getting any happier
Posted in Storage Economics on Aug 6, 2010 1 Comment »
I had a client recently tell me that an analyst firm has directed him not to make any changes in their storage (platform, vendor, architecture) unless it can deliver a 20% TCO improvement. The argument is that the extra effort involved in training, re-tooling costs etc. are so high that they won’t see this kind [...]
