by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
This came in over the transom from a semiconductor engineer. He’s wants home archive storage and is wondering why no one seems to sell it. I’ve been grappling with the same issue. Here’s an edited-for-length excerpt from his letter: I use RAID server...
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 | Friday, February 19, 2010 | Backup, Future Tech |
After 9 years and $100,000,000, holographic storage pioneer InPhase Technologies has shut down without ever shipping a product. Their office building was also seized for non-payment of back taxes. They assured me that the product would ship in May, 2008. It...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | Backup, Future Tech |
IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a technology that, if productized, could give us a 70 TB LTO tape cartridge. Tape isn’t dead – that will be a long time coming – but its vital signs aren’t good, either. Vacuum column, 800bpi tape drives...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, October 11, 2009 | Backup, Disk, Future Tech |
TDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer optical disk with 320 GB capacity – using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology. Each layer has better than 90% light transmission and writing required no more than 20 mW of the 30 mW Blu-ray...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 4, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
Joe, how about “Hawaiian shirt Fridays?” Data Domain’s board is has rejected EMC’s all cash offer in favor of NetApp’s enhanced cash + stock offer. But shareholders get the ultimate say. EMC is continuing with its tender offer for...
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