HGST getting ready to rumble

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...

NAB shorts: Isilon

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...

SNW & NAB: IOPS vs bandwidth

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...