by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 | Disk |
I got quoted in Byte & Switch today about Hitachi Global Storage Technology and the new CIO. HGST has been a money pit for Hitachi since they bought the IBM disk operation. They question is: are they ready to do something about it? The answer is yes. An informant...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 27, 2008 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Fresh off the HD-DVD fiasco, Toshiba execs are stepping up to pursue another expensive flop: notebook SSDs. Memo to Toshiba: people won’t pay huge SSD premiums for nothing. And almost nothing is what flash SSDs provide today – and for the foreseeable...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Video |
A video networking company in StorageMojo? Omneon isn’t new to StorageMojo. Their price list has been on price list page since January 2007. Their booth was about 50 yards from Isilon’s and EMC’s and it was a madhouse each time I walked by. Partly...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | Clusters, Video |
Isilon at NAB Stopped by the Isilon booth a couple of times. Traffic seemed steady. Isilon held their meetings away from the booth, so it didn’t have the level of activity of, say, Omneon’s booth. NAB is their biggest show of the year and the market where...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | Future Tech |
NAB frame by frame SNW and NAB did not overlap this year, so I spent 3 days each at both. The 2 events are very different: storage is the topic at one and merely central to what everyone is doing at the other. I enjoy both. Rather than tackle NAB in one piece...
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