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I have an update for this story. HGST said it could not state for sure when the 12-Gbps SAS SSD would be available, but Ulrich Hansen, director of market development for HGST, told me in an email: Due to corporate policy, we cannot discuss unannou…
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EMC actually did respond to the story the day it was written, asking me to listen in to a webcast scheduled the following day. But that email got caught in the danged spam filter. Regards, Joe Kovar, Friend of the Channel and the writer of this st…
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@Multiguru, It's true that the Thailand floods and the consolidation of the industry to three vendors (Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba) have resulted in higher average selling prices for hard drives and higher margins for vendors. However…
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In paragraph 7, when Isakovich says, "we're concerned about being around for a long time," the word "concerned" should be seen as meaning that the company is focused on being around. Isakovich is not "worried" abou…
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. VMware is in the process of focusing less on server virtualization technology, and more on building on virtualization as the way to help customers work their way to cloud computing. The bulk of the n…
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Actually, whiteknight, system builders who do not add virtualization to their servers are not only missing on opportunities, they are missing out on programs already in place. A lot of solution providers selling servers, whether branded or not, are …
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Steve, you are making an interesting assumption here that it's not in VMware's best interest to remain pals with HP. A bad assumption, buddy. I saw some stuff from HP today saying that 62 percent of all VMware installations on blade server…
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What about the possibility of HP and IBM pulling out their own guns loaded with bullets inscribed with Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, HP ProCurve, or Brocade?
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One of my Oracle/Sun VAR buddies who prefered to remain unnamed had this to add:you completely overlooked oracle's relationship with LSI/netapp. this is where the volume business took place. i read in another column that oracle has triple the…
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Just a quick clarification in that last paragraph. The revenue figures were related to hardware revenue of partners who bundled their hardware with the Nexenta software, and not Nexenta's actual software revenue.Regards,Joe Kovar, Friend of the…
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Just clearing up a slight point: West's comments about CommVault's relationship with NetApp being deeper than its relationship with Dell could be misinterpreted. West was referring to the technical integration, not the partnership relation…
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Just to make this interesting:HP originally planned to hold its 2nd quarter financial analyst call to report on results for the quarter on Wednesday afternoon. The company just announced that it is changing that call to tomorrow morning at 8:30 am E…
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When I wrote this story, it was with the detached point of view of a journalist.However, I cannot help but feel pain for the catastrophe facing the people of Japan, and hope for a quick recovery of that nation and its people.Joe Kovar, Friend of the…
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Hmmm, Interesting that Mr. Capellas did not mention NetApp, the company that may be the biggest potential competitor to VCE.Joe Kovar, CRN senior editor and Friend of the Channel
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HDS read this story and responded that it has not lost market share since it lost its reseller deal with Sun, but instead has gained market share. Here's a statement from Ricky Gradwohl, a company spokesman:"HDS has successfully converted …
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Of course Dell's in this for Dell. Any vendor would be crazy to make an acquisition, or do anything else for that matter, if it's not in its own best interests.That said, the real question is, is the potential acquisition ALSO good for the…
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Lester, In talking with many solution providers who went through the angst of Dell's acquisition of another all-channel storage vendor, EqualLogic, it seems that the channel stuck with the company, with the vast majority of them still selling E…
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I could see that happening for mobile PCs. Someday. The big factor is cost -- spinning hard drive prices are a fraction of those of flash-based drives. Furthermore, in the business world, with the average refresh of two to three years for mobile PCs…
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Oops, my bad. It was Tech Data, not Ingram Micro, which acquired Computer 2000, the European distributor which was founded by Axel Schultze.Regards,Joe Kovar, Friend of the Channel and the writer of this story.
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The folks at HP just told me the $329 starting price for the MicroServer includes a 160-GB hard drive, not a 2-TB hard drive.Regards,Joe KovarFriend of the Channel, and the writer guy for this story
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One of my VAR buddies, Dave Butler of Enterprise Computing Solutions, had this to say (he responded too late to get in the main story):Interesting banter going on between HP and Oracle and threats??.this is the most interesting show in town right no…
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"And let's not forget how the Sun channel program of the past had an average life expectancy of only two years"My turn to laugh, ITConusIt. I remember that for a time the average life expectancy was only six months. Sun's solutio…
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Caution is indeed a very good thing, ITConusIt.And MNSMB, it is often the case that a single person indeed can make no real difference in a large organization. But I wouldn't ignore the power of a call from someone like a Mark Hurd too quickly.…
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To "tapplz" and everyone else, I could see how the headline could be misleading. Yes, the main issue as brought out in this story is with the Motorola Droid.Also, after the story went live yesterday, I did get a response from a Verizon Wir…
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Let's hope Google learned that lesson from Microsoft as well. . . .Regards,Joe Kovar
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Fitzgressive, you are probably right about Dell not messing with the EMC partnership. However, it could change subtly over time as Dell brings in more and more of its own storage technology like with its EqualLogic and Ocarina acquisitions. And such…
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Xiromisho:The server uses the Intel Atom Z530: 1.6 GHz, single core, dual thread x86 processor. So 10U = 512 processors = 512 cores.The company has an extensive comparison to the Dell R610 server available as part of its presentation. I'll bet …
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To be more specific about ThinPrint, the story was referring to that company's WAN printing solution. Its Cortado division also offers a cloud-based printing solution.Regards,Joe KovarFriend of the Channel and the writer of this story.
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A couple of sharp-eyed readers noticed a couple of items in this story that were unclear.First, while the story could be read that Safari 5 does not support Adobe Flash in any devices, in fact it does support Flash on PCs and Macbooks, but not on Ap…
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"It's probably good for us and the economy that not everyone is a geek..."AMEN!
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