by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
Chris Mellor has the story on NetApp’s new bid. Basically NetApp has sweetened their offer of combined cash and stock to match EMC’s all-cash offer. I commented yesterday that If NetApp merely matches EMC’s offer they may still win the deal. Valley folks...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
With all the kerfluffle, one might think that Data Domain is the only dedup appliance company out there. They aren’t. The big guys are admitting they don’t have a product Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid, weighed in with some pertinent comments today: What...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 1, 2009 | Backup, Enterprise |
EMC plays catchup Long known for picking up useful assets at fire sale prices EMC is making a $2B move to pick up Data Domain at a premium price. That’s less than 2 weeks after NetApp put DD in play with a friendly $1.5B cash + stock offer. With...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
Continuing an occasional feature This just came over the transom. Vendors, take your best shot at configuring a good solution. Non-vendors are welcome too. I’ll email him a customized StorageMojo take after the bulk of the comments come in. Welcome to the real...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | Backup, Clusters, Video |
Garth Gibson, is one of the authors of the original RAID paper (pdf), CMU professor, founder of the Parallel Data Lab, founder and head of the Petascale Data Storage Institute and founder and CTO of Panasas, a maker of parallel clustered NAS systems. I caught up with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 13, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Or a reasonable facsimile thereof If you are interested in Disaster Recovery check out Axxana. They solve the limited synchronous data copy distance problem with a black box designed for data. Concept is simple but getting the details right is hard. The problem...
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