NetApp - Exposed

It's Never The Underlying Scandal That Gets You In Trouble

... Rather, it's always the attempted cover-up.  I asked a clear question on my blog yesterday about why a mainstream IT article covering Centera went from white in the morning to black by the same afternoon?

EMC responded with a lot of huffing and puffing, even a technical diatribe.  But apart from not even addressing the technology behind a simple MD5 hack to intentionally make data disappear forever on earlier generations of Centera, they avoided the elephant in the room altogether.

Why did they try (and fail) to cover it all up?

Based on EMC's track record to date, expecting a straight answer on this critical question is about as likely as EMC being voted the best place to work for in the US by Fortune Magazine.

Amping up the exposure on this whole topic has been my aim from the beginning. I never expected the other side to help out quite this much, but I am satisfied my goal has been accomplished.  Barring any unforeseen events, I'm going to retire this topic on my end for now.

Bercovici ... OUT! :)

Sunrise, Sunset

Andy Bechtolsheim is an industry legend, so it's no wonder we're seeing a tug-o-war emerging between Sun and Arista regarding where he will be spending his time.

Blogruptcy

Blog Bankruptcy or "Blogruptcy" comes about with the convergence of 3 underlying factors.  "Comment Bankruptcy", "Logical Bankruptcy" and finally "Ethical Bankruptcy".  I don't do this lightly, but this past week I've witnessed events which lead me to declare one particular blog completely bankrupt.

Before Flattery - EMC's Magic 8 Ball

NetApp is an innovator.  EMC is an imitator.  Look no further than: Storage Simplicity, NAS is mission-critical, SATA in the Enterprise, Advanced D2D Backup & Recovery, Unified Storage, iSCSI, Oracle & VMware over NFS, Thin Provisioning / Rapid Cloning ... and soon end-to-end dedupe I predict.  Then again an integrated product line with ultra-fast RAID that's also recognized as the most space-efficient (by key ISV's) may be beyond even EMC's own imagination.  So apparently not everything can be imitated :)

But did you ever wonder what happens in the uncomfortably long (for EMC) timeframe between NetApp innovation and EMC imitation?  That's the topic we'll Expose today.