Lawyers, Justice and RAID

by | Friday, January 12, 2007 | Clusters, Off-Topic | 3 comments

One of my favorite storage bloggers is NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz. He’s thoughtful, wry and, most important, he doesn’t spend much time pimping NetApp. I particularly enjoyed his recent post about lawyers and the legal system Lawyers Aren’t...

Brocade Buys Into IP SANs

by | Thursday, January 11, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC | 1 comment

Brocade announced it is buying Silverback Systems, makers of a low-cost IP accelerator chip Silverback has been getting some traction, as I learned when I had dinner with a couple of Silverback worthies at SNW. My pity turned to respect When I agreed to meet with...

SSD Price War Begins

by | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 3 comments

Digi Times is reporting that Ritek, the Taiwan-based optical disk maker, announced a 32 GB flash drive under its RiDATA brand for OEM sale. The cool thing: looks like they are charging ~$10/GB for the 16 GB version, although the article isn’t clear on pricing. A...

Apple’s Enterprise Strategy

by | Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech | 10 comments

The story Steve ISN’T telling at MacWorld Buddhists believe that desire is the cause of suffering. I can’t speak to Steve Job’s religion, but it is clear he refuses to suffer for the enterprise. As one ex-Applet (what does one call them?) stated...