Things and people?

I’ve been looking at a lot of storage marketing lately, and I’m identified two poles of marketing that are widespread across the industry. You might call the poles technical marketing and consumer marketing. In general, you can clearly identify these poles...

The Death of SAN?

Over the weekend, at a party, I had a chat with a guy who proclaimed “the death of SAN”. His hypothesis was that Amazon S3 could outSAN SAN any day of the week. My natural politeness led me to walk away instead of getting into a deep dive over beers, but...

Google page rank

Zbcontent.com is already on the first results page at Google for the following searches: Zettabyte Content Zettabyte Content Marketing And it’s on Page 2 for content consulting! Making progress.

Zettabyte Content is live!

Well, it’s taken about three weeks, but zbcontent.com is now live. I’d like to thank David Miller from Beta Images (betaimages.com), who developed the site, and a collection of reviewers/contributors who lifted the site to another level. These include:...

STEC

Working with EMC, I got to know STEC. They were the first SSD drive vendor integrated into Tier 1 primary storage, and they were, to be direct, the stuff. Really. They were the stuff. Dropping a few STEC drives into a happy but middling CLARiiON array was like putting...