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Sun Turnaround == Sun 2.0?

By Dick Weisinger

Employees at Sun are feeling good again.  “Inside the company, the energy level is dramatically different.” said Sun CFO Mike Lehman.  The turnaround is coming after five years of poor to mediocre fiscal performance at Sun. Sun’s financials from last

Storage: Smart storage products save big space

By Dick Weisinger

Storage Magazine has announced their list of Best Storage Products from 2006.  Storage hardware is definitely getting smarter.  Two similar features that propagated through vendor products in 2006 are deduplication and single-instance storage (SIS).  Both of these technologies try to identify data redundencies and

Oracle Databases and Storage

By Dick Weisinger

“Storage is growing much faster than the revenues and profits of companies” said Ari Kaplan, president of the Independent Oracle User’s Group (IOUG).  Storage demand is being driven by regulatory compliance, increased business transactions, and buisiness intelligence, and the bulk of the

Storage Continues to make a Splash

By Dick Weisinger

Last week I discussed how the Burton group sees a shift away from emphasis on technologies like Capture and Storage within ECM towards technologies that alleviate ‘Information Overload’.  But these ‘first wave’ technologies are not standing still.  Expect big changes in the

Storage: Backup Redesign Adds to Storage Demands

By Dick Weisinger

A survey by TheInfoPro found that Backup Redesign is a main driver of the increased demand for storage systems in organizations.  15% of the storage budget is flowing towards the redesign of backup infrastructure at Fortune 1000 companies. Those results