June 15, 2006

Iceland's frozen food supermarkets are well-known in the UK. They freeze food for long-term storage.

Now another Icelandic raider is coming to the UK. SecurStore, self-proclaimed to be Iceland’s leading storage services provider, has entered the UK backup/recovery market for small to medium business (SMBs). Its stated pitch says: "UK customers are guaranteed secure and reliable data backup, faster recovery from disk-to-disk than from tape, and the extra security of offsite backup and recovery. Unlike most other backup service providers, SecurStore also ensures that the data from every office location, no matter how remote, is also backed up to the data centre. Remote workers and laptop users connected to the network can also be incorporated in the back up."

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June 13, 2006

To give an indication of how complex the range of EMC's activites are here are just three ongoing events. EMC bought an Israeli-founded technology company, nLayers, to better map entity relationships in networks of computers. Small change these days. It gave $1,000,000 to help digitise the John F Kennedy Kennedy Presidential Museum in Boston. That moves it a notch up the corporate worthiness and good citizen scale. It also announced plans to sell off 144 acres of unwanted land 25 miles south of its headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. This land had been ear-marked for a large campus. No more. So, like any good land bank owner, it wants to divide the land into smaller lots and sell it off to property developers.

Enter local town officials in Bellingham, who fear the town budget will have to bear road improvement and allied costs for all these mini-developments if the plan goes ahead. As reported in the Milford Daily News via bizjournals.com, EMC "came in with the lousiest possible plan and said 'take it or leave it,'" said Roland Laprade, a Bellingham Planning Board member.

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June 9, 2006

Paradigm paralysis

Are the two pillars crumbling?

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June 8, 2006

In his blog Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote: "... we will build all products at Sun from Java, Solaris, StorageTek and from our newly unified SPARC and x64 SunFire platforms. I'd like to briefly point to three products that represent the future of such systems innovations. The recently unveiled Niagara servers, the StorageTek Titanium archive platform; and lastly, an upcoming extension to our NAS offerings, code named Thumper."

What is Thumper? "... arguably the best example of the alignment of Sun's systems innovation is a project we'll be announcing in late June - code name Thumper. Thumper is a SunFire server, running Solaris and its 128-bit ZFS file system, that packs 24 Terabytes of storage into a miniature package - allowing Solaris and Java applications to run directly on the storage device at breathtaking speed and price points. It's a perfect example of combining our software and hardware expertise, with an existing supply chain, to deliver a broader market, greater margins, and new customers - leveraging common IP, over a broader opportunity. We'll be announcing complete details at the end of June."

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