by Robin Harris | Sunday, May 28, 2006 | Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
I came across an interesting product, NASLite+ from an outfit, Server Elements, that turns pathetic old PCs into servicable NAS (SMB/CIFS, NFS) heads. A 200Mhz Pentium with 64MB of RAM is recommended, and the minimum is a 486, according to Server Elements. It even...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech
The busy storage elves at IBM’s Almaden Research Center have crammed almost 7 billion bits — about 800 megabytes — onto a square inch of test tape, a 15x improvement over today’s shipping products. The PR goes on to say: The demonstration shows...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 9, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Pre-Announcement Analysis Sun is building, some might say finally building, its first complete storage system, Project Honeycomb, which they previewed at a Sun event last week. Researching further I found that Sun and others have dribbled out much more information on...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 8, 2006 | Backup |
And I’m not going to do it. Instead, take a look at Data Domain’s nifty pdf whitepaper starting on page 12 (or Sec1:11). The first 11 pages are why it is wonderful. On page 12 they start getting into the how. I have a few quibbles but overall it is well...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, May 6, 2006 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
The folks at Silicon Valley Wag have a post about Maxtor, the disk drive company being bought by Seagate, teaming up with a software startup named Fabrik that is apparently creating web-based applications for managing one’s home digital content on the web....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 3, 2006 | Backup |
The tape business is normally about as exciting as watching paint dry. But with Sun’s misguided acquisition of StorageTek and now Quantum’s acquisition of ADIC, the pace of change is picking up. Quantum has been in a long going-out-of-business spiral for...
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