BlueArc or Blue Flame?(Company Business and Marketing)

Enterprise Systems Journal, June, 2001 by Toigo, Jon William

Blue Arc, a new company, has developed a data storage technology that is being looked at skeptically by the industry. This article exmines this issue.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) -- popularly known as shock treatment -- has been used for more than 60 years to treat severe depression in patients who have not responded to medication or psychotherapy. Critics of ECT claim that the procedure has no valid effect, simply causing short-term brain damage that makes the patient forget what he or she was depressed about. Eventually, the brain reroutes its traffic and the original problem returns.

So it is with data storage. Every few years, one vendor or another introduces a technology intended to free the IT manager from the depression created by an endless...

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