http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com A SearchStorage.com blog Thu, 08 May 2008 21:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Isilon had mixed financial results last quarter, reporting higher revenue ($24.1 million) than expected while losing more money ($10.1 million) than in any quarter last year. But the most important item on Isilon's scoreboard these days doesn't have a hard number affixed to it. That's confidence among customers and investors. People ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/08/isilon-sells-more-loses-more/ Is it just me, or is there a bit of a sour mood going around? Must be the economy. But angst makes for good blogging - it's a time-honored formula. Below is a grab bag of some of edgy IT blog posts from the last week or so. http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/07/it-angst/ Two small vendors trying to make their way in markets dominated by storage giants made incremental yet interesting offerings this week.   Mosso, a division of Rackspace,  rolled out a cloud computing platform called the Hosting Cloud in February and followed with the release of MailTrust email hosting. Those first two services are intended for users who run ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/06/mosso-in-the-cloud-monosphere-in-the-dark/ While it might seem like we're about to change our site name to SearchWANOptimizationVendorsFighting.com, I assure you it's just coincidence. Riverbed and its rivals have had a lot to say lately, and that's at least in part because of greater competition in their market space, though it's not getting as ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/05/even-more-riverbed-news/ I have yet another story up today about the AutoCAD issue with WAN optimization products. This time, Riverbed did some testing and had Taneja Group validate it. That story is here. In the meantime, space limitations made it impossible to include the entire response we got from Silver Peak's director of marketing ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/05/silver-peak-objects-to-tests-by-riverbed/ So I come back from a day off and what do I find? IBM and Google, Sun and Amazon reportedly pairing up in the cloud. I have to say that cloud computing has made the growing IBM/EMC rivalry that much more interesting. EMC threw one of the first punches with the ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/05/vendors-are-buddying-up-in-the-cloud/ Comments by CEO H.K. Desai on QLogic's last week raised questions about the future of QLogic's SANbox 9000 Fibre Channel director switch. Several times on the company's earnings conference call, Desai said QLogic was changing the focus on its switching business to edge and blade switches. That would seem to leave ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/05/qlogic-switching-directions-on-directors/ When Sun revealed its open source storage push this week, some in the industry wondered about its business model. In other words, how can Sun make money on open source storage products? Then Sun reported its earnings Thursday night, and it became clear that its storage business isn't exactly rolling in ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/02/sun-going-down-in-storage/ The economy has been on the mind of just about everybody recently, and with good reason. Gas at near record highs, unemployment rising, housing values reportedly dropping, the credit crunch and foreclosures numbering in the bazillions it is easy to see why people are not exactly upbeat about the state ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/02/the-storage-admin-dr-and-the-down-market/ Compellent joined other storage companies including EMC and Data Domain in reporting a strong first quarter despite a down economy. The company's revenues more than doubled year over year to $18.3 million, growth of 107% over the first quarter of 2007 and 9% over the previous quarter. The company also is still ... http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/01/ceo-says-compellent-benefits-from-dell-equallogic-fallout/