Greg Reyes sentenced

Greg Reyes, former CEO of Brocade, received a sentence of 18 months and a $15 million dollar fine for his conviction on 10 felony counts related to options backdating. Prosecutors had asked for 37 months and a $137 million dollar fine. Mr. Reyes was emotional at his...

How tape dies

Storage Newsletter reports that Tape Drive and Media Revenues Decreased by 25% in 2009. The data comes from a report by the Santa Clara Consulting Group. The numbers show us how old tape formats die: slowly. While the overall market for drives and media was $1.58B it...

Room at the top

Kaminario has introduced the world’s fastest SAN storage, the K2. If time is money, this is for you. DRAM Kaminario’s K2 is fast because DRAM, not disk, is the primary storage. DRAM’s low latency, high bandwidth and durability breaks the tight link...

Quantum physics for the rest of us

I did something last week that I haven’t done for a year: read a book. I do plenty of reading, but somehow books fell off the list of preferred input devices. Time to buy a Kindle or an iPad? In retrospect I was taking a vacation from blogging. If I’d...