Archive for March, 2011
There’s one for you nineteen for me
Posted in Hardware, Storage Economics, Storage Software on Mar 30, 2011 No Comments »
I was working on my taxes two weeks ago, and as usual ended up humming the Taxman song from the Beatles. Part of the lyrics penned by George Harrison goes as follows: “Let me tell you how it will be; There’s one for you, nineteen for me. ‘Cause I’m the taxman, Yeah, I’m the taxman”. [...]
Economic Resiliency
Posted in Storage Economics on Mar 28, 2011 No Comments »
Like most of us, I have been following the tragic events in Japan since the March 11 earthquake/tsunami and the ever-changing nuclear crisis unfolding in Fukushima. We continue to see swings in global stock, bonds and commodities markets. Energy demands (in terms of supply and price) are impacted by events in Japan, as well as [...]
So how cheap is that disk??
Posted in Storage Economics on Mar 17, 2011 7 Comments »
We have all heard it before. “I can go down to <insert name of local retail tech store> and buy a 1TB disk for $60. Why is your enterprise disk so expensive??”



