Steve Duplessie
Steve Duplessie
existed quo status storage
The status quo in storage has existed for a long, long time, ... but I think the applecart is about to be upset.
add experience fit good great growth looks pillar poised rapid storage strength value vast
Brenda is a seasoned storage professional that will add strength to Pillar's team. Pillar is poised for rapid growth and Brenda's vast experience will be of great value during the process. This looks like a really good fit to me.
bet farm front gives intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals stick storage toes users water
Users don't want to bet the farm up front on network-based storage intelligence -- and Troika gives them a way to stick their toes in the water without drowning,
boring crazy drives microsoft money operating outside people spend storage system ton tools users value wants
Microsoft wants the operating system and their tools to have all the value so that users don't need to go outside of the family. It drives Microsoft crazy that people spend a ton of money with EMC and Veritas on boring old storage issues.
billion computing dollar fantastic gives grid huge instant joining moving powerful provide service solutions storage sun
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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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.
benefits channel enterprise entire extended fiber means pros realizing red storage throughout
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.
anybody ask box contains easier environment inside manage management managing outside point single storage
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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Asigra Televaulting for Enterprises is an elegant solution to the issue of excessive license costs for large-scale VMware sites. The combination of a robust backup engine and the capacity-based pricing model makes Asigra an appealing choice for any organization that is dealing with excessive backup/recovery licenses.
biggest commercial expect lab large lots market near players prime ready signifies solution users
Commercial users don't want to be lab rats. The endorsement of GFS by some of the biggest players in the market signifies this solution is really ready for prime time, ... I expect we'll see lots of large deployments in the very near future.
appealing both corporate data ends functions itself locally matter microsoft office operations plays providing remote rid role services
It is completely unrealistic to think that remote office operations are going to get rid of all the functions they run, no matter how appealing the concept. Microsoft plays a role at both ends of the WAN, so I like the Tacit Networks' implementation of providing Microsoft-based services locally while centralizing the data itself back at the corporate data center.
companies definite library observing replaced tape trend
We are observing a definite trend of hundreds of terabytes of tape library being replaced with disk, ... These companies were permanently replacing, not augmenting tape.
adopted almost portable reason writers
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,
bunch execute pass proof
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.