{"id":270,"date":"2009-03-28T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-03-28T19:57:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T08:57:24","slug":"emc-helping-out-quantum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/03\/28\/emc-helping-out-quantum\/","title":{"rendered":"EMC helping out Quantum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I was <em>not<\/em> a fan of Quantum. As a system administrator in the early to mid 90&#8217;s, I loathed depending on Quantum for the plain DLT-7000 and DLT-8000 format while it seemed they were just sitting on their market share and not innovating. I cheered when the LTO consortium was founded, and have enjoyed watching LTO marketshare grow at the expense of DLT and SDLT.<\/p>\n<p>Since Quantum&#8217;s acquisition of Certance though, they&#8217;ve become more intimately involved in LTO, and they&#8217;ve certainly been trying to turn their game around. Not only that, there are other products, forgetting the actual tape drives, of Quantum, that I like. My favourite tape libraries of all time are StorageTek (Sun), but past that, I&#8217;ve equally liked Quantum and ADIC libraries, and with Quantum now owning ADIC, I guess that means after Sun\/STK tape libraries, I next like Quantum libraries. Not only that, they also have some commendable disk backup solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days, news has hit about <a title=\"EMC loan Quantum $100 M\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/03\/27\/emc_loan_to_quantum\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMC injecting a $100 million loan to Quantum<\/a>. Ostensibly, I believe this helps EMC initially because they license\/use some of the Quantum VTL solutions in their EDLs.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I suggested that regardless of talk about IBM looking at acquiring Sun, EMC might be a better buyer. However, with this loan going across to Quantum, it&#8217;s making me think that perhaps long term EMC might be able to achieve a good extension to their business by acquiring Quantum and picking the key components, namely:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>LTO and SDLT<\/li>\n<li>Tape libraries<\/li>\n<li>VTL core technology<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There might be other &#8220;worthwhile&#8221; bits in Quantum, but when you consider that EMC&#8217;s acquisitions over the last 8-10 years have been specifically aimed at giving them full turn-key solutions in the entire information industry, it seems crazy that they&#8217;re still not directly involved in tape.<\/p>\n<p>Will Quantum be that opportunity?<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I was not a fan of Quantum. As a system administrator in the early to mid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[1259,775],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-thoughts","tag-emc","tag-quantum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-4m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}