Work In Progress

Techworld.com
Wouldn’t it be good if HP continued to make mincemeat of other vendors’ lackadaisical SMI-S efforts and creamed into their customer bases with Storage Essentials? They deserve no less. As for the others in the anti-Aperi Group words fail me….No. Stop. I’m, a hack. I can’t write that and mean it….

Is this really what’s going on?  Maybe this isn’t such a great idea.  Doesn’t SMI-S require several decent client applications in order for it to develop the required momentum for decent agent implementations to emerge? (Few have done so yet.)

I only just learned that AkkorI have come out of stealth mode with an “SRM appliance”

http://www.akorri.com/Default.aspx

Sounds like they’re aiming at one or two of the useful subsets of Storage Authority supposed functionality. Topology, and SPA and impact/hotspot analysis. I wonder if they will get it to work.  Matrix and Northbridge behind them, and a couple of customers.

Most interestingly, their “Vice President of Channel and Alliance Development” is actually Lord Voldemort. That’s got to give them some kind of advantage.

Strategic Info Management: Has Storage Resource Management Fizzled? – Storage & Servers – Network Computing
…We brought in AppIQ; same dog, different set of fleas…

This kind of thing makes me proud.  To think that somewhere in the depths of the software there is a nugget of gold that could be combined with a whole load of other stuff  to make a usable software product.  Mmmm.

Techworld.com – Storage Insight – Hurd speaks; continuing change at HP
…Mark Hurd did signal that focused acquisitions may be on the cards, ruling out larger-scale corporate buys such as Symantec. That may indicate that HP could move into the high-end network-attached storage (NAS) space. It also seems to need a data protection management reporting capability of its own, one that integrates well and deeply into its existing storage and IT infrastructure management products. There’s no sign that Storage Essentials is developing into this space…

Mellor points out repeatedly that non of the high-ups in HP (Hurd, Livermore, Robison) are talking about product (specifically Storage Essentials) but rather about strategy.  Maybe that signifies a gap between product and strategy, or even between product strategy and corporate strategy?  Are HP going to try to leverage “focused acquisitions” to bridge this gap, rather than Doing Engineering (which still seems to be regarded as a core competency amongst the engineers and their first few levels of management)?