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Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Virtualization to include Cloud Applications

March 19, 2011

Desktop virtualization is beginning to be more than a virtualized version of Microsoft office and file storage. It is also becoming a standard virtual set of cloud applications. I attended my monthly CIO meeting last night and the topic was virtualization.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Seagate Refreshes Enterprise Storage, Including First Enterprise Product

March 19, 2011

Seagate introduced a variety of new enterprise level storage products. These products included traditional enterprise products including a 2.5 inch 10 k RPM drive with 900 GB. The company also announced its first enterprise solid state drives, Pulsar.2 and Pulsar XT.2. These SSD products are at least partially the result of the partnership between Samsung and Seagate announced last year.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

HDDs and Flash Memory, Better Together

March 17, 2011

Solid state drives are in less than 1% of computers after years of marketing saying they would replace HDDs. Flash memory has faster performance than HDDs, particularly for reading but it is considerably more expensive. Combining flash memory and HDDs together can give performance approaching solid state drives while offering prices comparable to hard disk drives. Hybrid and paired storage putting flash memory and HDDs together could put flash memory in most computers.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Obsolescence in Action?

March 17, 2011

In late February 2011 Intel and Apple announced that the latest MacBook Pro computers will include a Thunderbolt port. Thunderbolt had been announced previously by Intel as Light Peak and offered initial data rates as high as 10 Gbps. The first Thunderbolt products will use copper cables although Light Peak was to use fiber optics to achieve up to 100 Gbps data rates. Thunderbolt is much faster than USB (currently up to 5 Gbps) and may displace this long standing peripheral interface.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Saving Power in the Data Center

March 13, 2011

The speed of servers continues to grow. This could lead to an ever larger and larger power utilization in the data center. But there three main approaches to reducing power consumption in the data center. You can virtualize your servers, you can outsource to the clound and you can cnetralize your storage in a SAN.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

WD Acquisition of Hitachi GST Creates Dominant HDD Player

March 7, 2011

WD announced that they reached an agreement to purchase Hitachi GST for $4.3 B. Unit shipments of the combined company could achieve close to 50% of the total market, assuming no share loss. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter assuming regulatory approval with Hitachi retaining a 10% stake in the combined company. Current HGST CEO, Steve Milligan will be president of the new business reporting to John Coyne.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Solid State Drives belong in the data center

March 5, 2011

The speed at which solid state drives can perform should make them a heavy part of your data center drive strategy. But somehow that still has not happened. We still see most companies sticking with fiber channel drives using traditional hard drive platters. This is in spite of the performance gains. So just why do we not see more solid state drives in the data center.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Can IT speed products to market by implementing Social Networking

February 27, 2011

Product development cycle times have been shrinking for decades. But the truth is that we have optimized the Supply chain from the manufacturer back to the suppliers for the last 100 years (or more). The new frontier for reduced product cycle times involves customer input and the ability to take feedback and execute quickly. This is not necessarily a new topic. Many companies have been doing focus groups and pilot launches for several decades. In the past, these efforts have been limited geographically or in participation (2% response was considered fantastic). And companies have been tracking competitive information for generations. The use of Social media may be the driver for faster product development.

Peter Shih-Hsin YingPresident Knight Investment Consulting

No-Key-Ah Continues: Chapter Two- Jumping Through The Window...from Which Story?

February 27, 2011

Analysis of:Nokia vows to defend smartphone territory | www.totaltele.com

Nokia is out of focus concerning the supply chain problem. The Android Open Source OS is the easy solution. But instead of strolling out the front door with winning lottery ticket and running to the wide market field to cash it in like a #1 generalist handset provider should do, Nokia jumps out of a window! Windows 7 OS. The remaining question is from which story? It won't take too long then you can tell from the length of the screaming when it has fallen from the high window: No-key-AAaaahhh!

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Storage tiering for small businesses

February 21, 2011

Drobo has refreshed its new business oriented storage products. The new products include traditional NAS systems but also 2 SAN products using iSCSI. The business products come in 8 drive bay and 12 drive bay configurations. The 12 bay storage system support tiered storage using SSDs and HDDs in the 12 drive bays. New Drobo products reflect increased interest by large storage companies and small storage suppliers in the small business market.

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