by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 6, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Well, after getting /.’d yesterday this is bound to be an anti-climax. But I scoured the exhibition show floor the coolest products at SNW last night and found three contenders. The first is Wasabi Systems the maker of a small (~1″x 3″) flash drive...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 5, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
So here I am in a cloudy and rainy San Diego, visiting Storage Networking World. This is a show for big data center types. Typical opening question: “So how many data centers do you have?” But there is frequently some interesting stuff presented amidst the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Lack of offsite storage of critical business data is one of the biggest failings of small businesses. I know a photographer, graphic designer and video producer whose studio, with its complement of Mac and PC computer gear, was wiped out in a fire. He has insurance to...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 3, 2005 | Backup, Enterprise |
If any of you are still holding Sun stock, hoping for a comeback, Sun’s acquisition of StorageTek is dire news. In the last ten years Sun’s storage group has managed to cut its attach rate by half – to the lowest for any major system vendor – so most storage...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 27, 2005 | Backup, Enterprise |
Much more surprising and dangerous (than Carly’s firing) to the storage industry is the takeover of Veritas by Symantec. The largest independent storage software company can’t think of anything better to do for its stockholders than sell itself. Management...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 | Backup, Enterprise |
Jan 18, 2005 Hitachi is claiming they will be sampling a 5.25″ 200GB holographic storage platter late this year. If it were almost anyone else I wouldn’t give the story much credence, but Hitachi knows what it means to deliver product. I expect this date...
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