GLG News by PC Storage Device Purchasers and Sellers

All the hype came to its crescendo this week as T-Mobile, Google and HTC jointly released the T-Mobile G1, the first commercially available mobile device based on the open source Linux Google Android operating system. The touch screen G1, known to some as the HTC Dream, bears some similarity to...

* Oracle announced that it is selling an Exadata Storage Server under its own brand  * HP makes the storage hardware which uses 64 Intel processors, hard disk drives with storage capacity up to 12 terabytes and runs Oracle database software  * The base HP platform is the HP ProLiant DL180...

It's Terabyte Galore. Capacity is no longer an issue as vendors have 1TB products on the market from Seagate, Western Digital, and Iomega.

I agree with Paul's analysis and associated conclusions.  I would also add that when Google reaches the level of reliability attained by other SaaS like suppliers (SalesForce.com, etc.) then their gmail offering will become acceptable to the enterprise businesses. 

1.  Oracle received its major revenue from Maintenance. 2.  Greater efficiencies will be gained inisde of Oracle to improve operating margins

Microsoft's recent announcements in the virtualization arena prove that they are serious about their role in competing with VMware & Citrix: 1) Their new management tool for migrating Virtual Apps from one physical device to another (like VMware's VMotion) show that they continue to make progress...

If you have ever worked with Microsoft’s Virtualization you will then know there is a reason it is free. It does not work very well. VMWare is so far in front of them that it’s not even funny. As long as MS keeps their virtualization technology dependent on their OS I will be skeptical from the get...

The move is important as Dell seeks to improve results. Is the location and ownership of factories important (as part of the supply chain management) for the company? Will Dell suffer product quality issues?

§ By some estimates there are over 50 companies currently offering products that they call solid state drives (SDDs)  §  Many of these products have been designed hastily and some of them show no improvement in benchmarking tests vs. hard disk drive metrics  §  There...

* There are rumors that Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor drive  * Other HDD companies such as Seagate, Fujitsu and others are also working on improving rotational as well as track change drive latencies  * SSDs are starting to compete against HDDs for performance oriented...