by brianw | 02.13.13 | Uncategorized
Talking to solopreneurs and small businesses lately, IT catastrophes seem to fall into this category: out of mind, out of sight. They pay lip service to avoiding IT catastrophes, but often don’t take the time and effort to build in redundancy and reliability....
by brianw | 01.22.13 | Uncategorized
Today the news of Dell’s foray into private ownership took an interesting turn. Seems that Microsoft is considering an equity stake in Dell and I’m cautiously optimistic about it. There’s a lot of buzz around this but most of it focuses on...
by brianw | 07.18.12 | Uncategorized
FULL DISCLOSURE: I finished my Dell career in April 2012, but this article is based solely on publicly available information and a little reflection. Yesterday, Dell announced a $60 million venture fund to invest in start-up storage companies. You can read the...
by brianw | 07.13.12 | Uncategorized
In a nod to traditional approaches, I’m considering a postcard campaign to 250 marketing directors. At the moment, this is the very rough layout that’s floating to the top of the pile. Who thinks it’s great? Who thinks it’s crap?...
by brianw | 07.06.12 | Uncategorized
For years in mid-range primary block storage, architectures were much the same. Two controllers, active/passive or active/active, loops of backend connectivity connected to boxes of disk. And performance, so the vendors would tell you, was much the same. After all,...
