by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Backup, Enterprise |
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...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | Clusters, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
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...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 8, 2010 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 31, 2010 | Off-Topic |
Today in the United States we celebrate a national holiday, Memorial Day, to honor those who have fought for our country and its Constitution. I thought to re-post one of my Memorial Day posts from last year, Hospital ship Haven in Nagasaki, Japan, 1945 about my...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 24, 2010 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A hybrid of SSD and hard drive that gives you the best of both worlds. That’s the theory anyway. But I won’t keep you in suspense: I think Seagate has hit a home run with their new hybrid XT architecture. Specs Take a standard issue 7200 rpm, 500 GB...
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