NEWZ: Larry Ellison's Pillar Storage Arrays

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• After investing four years and $150 million, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison has launched a new company that offers a storage array that targets products from storage heavyweights such as IBM, EMC, and HP...
  
  Proprietary software allows the Axiom to create multiple service levels through its placement of data on its disk drives. The outer edge of the drives, closest to the read/write head, is reserved for higher-performance applications, while the center and inner edge are used for lower-performance needs...
  
  Hill gave Pillar's array high marks on price, ease of use and functionality. He estimated that an EMC system similar to his $100,000 Pillar box would cost around $400,000...

http://www.computerworld.com/hardwa...10801,102438,00.html?source=NLT_ST&nid=102438

http://www.pillardata.com/

 

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It looks like this venture might actually make Emporer Larry some money in the long run, as opposed to his (failed?) thin client terminal business, and his dablings in various unprofitable anti-Microsoft business activities.

 

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It looks like this venture might actually make Emporer Larry some money in the long run ...

Yeah, he really needs the money. :roll: