“The Father Of Storage 2.0″

I have to insist that people out there stop referring to me as “The Inventor Of Storage 2.0.” It’s not very becoming of a young, strapping lad such as myself in pursuit of conquering something. I prefer “The Father Of Storage 2.0″ instead. In the end, you can make your own decision.

All seriousness aside, I don’t really blame the storage software vendors for melding solutions together in the manner that has evolved. I recently blogged about ugly people having not-so-pretty children — no offense to all the ugly people that sent in reader comments, but I was really trying to say that the merger of bad companies rarely produces a winner. Successfully merging winning software companies can be a real challenge — they usually fail. The bigger the merger is, the more difficult they are to integrate. That’s integration referring to a process that needs to be integrated, not necessarily business units and products. That’s a different thing entirely.