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 what he was...

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.

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: Janet O'Malley...

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...

I have to admit being puzzled for years by a simple question: why are tech companies either blue or red? If you think, blue tech companies abound. IBM, Dell, Netapp, EMC, HP fit the bill. And then there are red tech companies, Oracle, AMI, Hitachi, they all spring to...