by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 1, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
What, if any, is the value of multi-year storage uptime? Xiotech and Atrato promise 5 and 3 year uninterrupted service on their new arrays. Now it is time to ask, as some commenters have, so what? After all, enterprise data centers are already well-equipped to deal...
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...
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