What is “primary” storage?

A commenter recently asked Archivas was focused on archive, do you expect the new solution to sustain performance for primary storage as well? Which is a good question, if you know what “primary” means. Do we? Tiers of a clown 10 years ago we all agreed on...

Off to Tokyo

The friendly folks at Hitachi are flying me and a number of other analysts and bloggers to Tokyo. They want to tell us about their plans for – well, I don’t know what – and it’s under NDA. Normally I don’t sign those, but between Tokyo...

How tape dies

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...