Steve Duplessie
Steve Duplessie
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They're like the perfect Harvard MBA case study: All of their charts go up and to the right. We went right after him, and he killed us -- and I say that with the utmost respect.
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They're all filthy rich, but they stay because they truly enjoy the challenge and each other's company. That's a testament to Dan, and the fact that he is smarter than his ego is big.
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The bottom line is that the mid- to high-end market is still very vibrant and very active for tape and tape automation vendors. This is definitely going to turn heads in that market space.
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StorageTek gives Sun instant storage footprint, huge storage credibility, and a fantastic billion dollar service business. Sun gives StorageTek a whole new playground. Together, I can see grid computing and grid storage joining to provide some very powerful solutions moving forward.
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DPM will cause an awesome amount of confusion in the backup market.
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Dell has been kicking butt for a few years in the SMB slice, and HP looks like it is poised to re-join the fray, ... Sun is even selling tons of lower-end SANs into its customer base.
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This is a brilliant strategic move by Quantum and great news for customers. The combined company will have an enormous set of offerings, the scale, footprint and financial foundation to really have an impact in the data protection market. This acquisition propels Quantum into a clear top three position among the largest data protection suppliers, and makes them big enough to control their own fate. I love this deal.
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Our research confirms that Oracle Automatic Storage Management delivers high performance, more reliable automation and simplified operations, ... This capability delivers previously unattainable levels of storage management efficiency through highly automated, application-centric rules and policies.
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So, all in all, I applaud the effort. If he can gather up enough user support, he could snowball it into something the vendor world is forced to deal with, but unless that happens it will probably be like wrangling cats.
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IP Storage is red hot. IT pros are realizing that the same benefits they get from their Fiber Channel SANs can and should be extended throughout the entire enterprise -- and that means IP.
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The new DMX-3 makes it easier to manage storage inside the box than outside the box. If you ask anybody managing a disk environment what they want, it's a single box that contains all the tiers of storage and has a single point of management for anything.
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Gear has to be idiot-proof to be successful in the midrange, as they don't want to have a zillion IT gurus if all they do is sell paint or donuts,
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In the past, SRM was trying to bite off too big a chunk for most to swallow, ... It was too expensive and did so many things that no one could really use it.
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All the offerings share the common good of dramatically improving recovery point objectives vs. traditional nightly full or incremental backups. Continuous data protection vs. near-CDP might mean the difference between recovery points of 1 second or 1 hour. Either is much better than what we do today.