by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
They haven’t reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO and put founder Sujal Patel in his place. And NetApp was trying to strangle baby Isilon (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | Disk, SAN, FC |
StorageMojo reported last June 19th a rumor that Apple’s Xserve RAID would bite the dust. And now, exactly 8 months later, they’ve pulled the plug. I saw a wall of Xserves and Xserve RAIDs at NAB last year and they were, without a doubt, the prettiest...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 18, 2008 | Disk, Enterprise |
Last year’s Google and CMU papers on disk failure rates (see Everything you know about disks is wrong and Google’s Disk Failure Experience) made the points that a) annual disk failure rates are significantly higher than manufacturers admit and b) that...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Disk, Future Tech |
The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will give us 10 TB 2.5″ disks in the next decade. But then what? Optical protein-based quantum dots could be the answer....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Got an interesting press release this morning about a Denver-area company, Atrato, announcing its existence and $18 million in funding. Their mission: Based in Westminster, Colorado, Atrato Inc.’s (www.atrato-Inc.com) mission is to help companies in entertainment,...
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