November 12, 2009 – 3:57 pm
The SSD angst continues around STEC’s recent announcement, EMC’s reduced demand forecast and the enterprise SSD market in general. Beth Parisseau interviewed [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD
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Also tagged Beth Parisseau, EMC, enterprise, Flash, forecast, hype cycle, Jeff Boles, maturity, Seagate, SSD, standards, STEC, Taneja Group, trough of disillusionment
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Source: wikipedia.org
There have been cracks forming in the veneer of the netbook story, such as those spotted by CRNtech:
Feature creep
Wide variation in performance, depending on the OS
Disappointing battery [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Notebook PC, Trends
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Also tagged battery life, disk drive, feature creep, hype curve, hype cycle, Netbook, OS, power, requirements, Seagate, storage, trough of disillusionment, Ubuntu, windows
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Source: ComputerWorld
I was struck by the similarity between MIT’s vision of the PC in 2019 and Cisco’s Unified Computing vision for data centers. Both bring connectivity to the [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, Desktop PC, Notebook PC, Trends
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Also tagged Cisco, Commputer, Computerworld, data center, Digital Assistant, IT, IT civil war, Om Malik, pc, personal computer, SmartPhone, storage, Unified Computing
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February 10, 2009 – 6:40 am
CRN UK reports that Seagate’s new Constellation family of enterprise drives brings a much-needed storage media price point to cost-conscious CFOs. The timing is right. These days storage expansion is a [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Green, IT Storage, Products
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Also tagged 2.5", cfo, constellation, Constellation ES, CRN, dell, John Monroe, Pete Steege, recession, Seagate, Seagate Blogs
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January 5, 2009 – 1:54 pm
Bucking economic trends as recently as September
Storage Station noted that Gartner and IDC are seeing about 10% growth in storage revenue in the third quarter of 2008. That’s pretty [....]
