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add attractive design looks opposed physical scaling small smart start
It's attractive because you can start really small and get really, really big, ... It's easy, and smart -- the physical design looks pretty intelligent. As you're scaling up, as opposed to doing a forklift upgrade, you can just modularly add in capacity. You won't need a crane to add things in.
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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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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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The status quo in storage has existed for a long, long time, ... but I think the applecart is about to be upset.
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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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What it implies is if the adoption of VI occurs, companies will be able to use their existing IP infrastructure, including everything from the switches to the hubs, all the things they are already familiar with, and be able to build extremely high performance data networks, ... Quite frankly, the news blew my mind.
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If they were to execute brilliantly they could find they could pass a whole bunch of these guys. But the proof really is in the pudding.
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But the reason VI will be adopted by all the application writers is that once you write an application in VI, it's portable to almost any platform, and all the real databases are already VI-enabled,
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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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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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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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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.