Archive for February, 2007
It helps to Clarify
Posted in Virtualization on February 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Tony Pearson posted “Hu Yoshida should know better” in response to my blog on storage virtualization and vendor lock in. This blog caused him to dirty his computer screen. Sorry Tony, I think I need to give you an explanation. I admit that the sentence that you quoted in your blog was a little alarming, [...]
What’s wrong with this picture?
Posted in Virtualization on February 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
After spending the week visiting customers in Belgium and Luxemburg with Dany DeBudt, I went to one of my favorite places, in Brussels, the Grand Place, to do some shopping and have dinner. In one of our conversations, Dany suggested that the next time I visited the Grand Place; I should stand back and take [...]
HDS Makes an Acquisition
Posted in HDS News on February 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
Thomas Friedman in his book “The World is Flat” explains how great changes are taking place at warp speed and technology and communications are putting people all over the world in touch with one another. It is a very complex world in which a company can not be expert in every field. Therefore it is [...]
Storage Virtualization and vendor lock in
Posted in Virtualization on February 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Experts agree that virtualization has the potential to simplify storage administration, increase utilization and availability, and reduce the cost of managing different vendor’s storage products by masking the differentiation that vendors strive to create to capture market share. Essentially the expert’s goal is to commoditize storage so that it is just a matter of choosing the [...]
