http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=616 The greatest storage blog in the world.... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=616&cpage=1#comment-1186 Jesse Fri, 14 May 2010 02:20:51 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=616#comment-1186 I just shut down my blog - too busy these days to make it a full-time thing.The only reason Software is sexy is because the former hardware manufacturers want the fat profit margins that come with software.  (IE once it's GA you can sell the same thing over and over again)That would be fine if they didn't skimp on development to increase said fat profit margin.For example.  EMC was king when all it did was hardware.  EMC is losing market-share daily now that they spend more time pushing crappy software products (and "appliances" based on consumer grade PC hardware) over the products that made them what they are.I don't care how much the EMC Sales dweebs want me to endorse it, RecoverPoint goes into an environment and I go out of it.  It's as simple as that. I just shut down my blog – too busy these days to make it a full-time thing.The only reason Software is sexy is because the former hardware manufacturers want the fat profit margins that come with software.  (IE once it’s GA you can sell the same thing over and over again)That would be fine if they didn’t skimp on development to increase said fat profit margin.For example.  EMC was king when all it did was hardware.  EMC is losing market-share daily now that they spend more time pushing crappy software products (and "appliances" based on consumer grade PC hardware) over the products that made them what they are.I don’t care how much the EMC Sales dweebs want me to endorse it, RecoverPoint goes into an environment and I go out of it.  It’s as simple as that.

]]> http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=616&cpage=1#comment-1124 snig Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:13:06 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=616#comment-1124 Storage is but a small piece of the puzzle my friend.  Storage is a commodity now.  Software companies have made it that way, including EMC.  Hardware is cool, but software is sexy. (c) Storage is but a small piece of the puzzle my friend.  Storage is a commodity now.  Software companies have made it that way, including EMC.  Hardware is cool, but software is sexy. (c)

]]> http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=616&cpage=1#comment-1123 stephen2615 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:14:50 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=616#comment-1123 I would beg to differ about it being a commodity right now.  Having a friend who works as a Business Development Manager for Cisco who has to come up with some interesting solutions and also knowing what large corporations are trying to implement with the data centre and "cloud computing" (or whatever its called tomorrow), storage is by far not just a commodity.  Getting the right storage to the right user (on the right "virtualised" plaform) with the right protocol in the most efficient and cost effective solution needs a good deal of planning and in some cases vision. Some of the best (I mean seriously big) paying roles around are for storage (and data) architectural roles that also have to integrate with security and server virtualisation architectural solutions.  Getting the right backup solution for PB's of disk is even more difficult. Perhaps data center infrastructure covers that eh? I would beg to differ about it being a commodity right now.  Having a friend who works as a Business Development Manager for Cisco who has to come up with some interesting solutions and also knowing what large corporations are trying to implement with the data centre and "cloud computing" (or whatever its called tomorrow), storage is by far not just a commodity. 
Getting the right storage to the right user (on the right "virtualised" plaform) with the right protocol in the most efficient and cost effective solution needs a good deal of planning and in some cases vision.
Some of the best (I mean seriously big) paying roles around are for storage (and data) architectural roles that also have to integrate with security and server virtualisation architectural solutions.  Getting the right backup solution for PB’s of disk is even more difficult.
Perhaps data center infrastructure covers that eh?

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