by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
New technologies tend to get their start as business tools, because if you can show them the numbers businesses will buy cranky, expensive and barely workable solutions. Such as today’s enterprise data and storage systems. What is the “Consumerization of...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 12, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
A shot across the bow HP’s acquisition of Polyserve is a ~$250 million (my SWAG, we’ll have to see what, if anything, gets reported on the 10K) bet on the future of storage. And I think it is a good one. HP needed to do something. Their external storage...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 8, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Today’s Wall Street Journal article Skimming Devices Target Debit-Card Readers (subscription required, I fear) describes how thieves are hacking debit cards: replace store credit card mag stripe readers with ones that copy the mag card data and the PIN. The...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 5, 2007 | Enterprise |
Optics? We don’t need no stinkin’ optics. Computerworld reported Friday that drive vendors have very little to say about their MTBF specs. (BTW, link points to a more easily read version, one that also links to StorageMojo, which is how I found out about...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 1, 2007 | Enterprise |
You can go about your business Chuck Hollis of EMC took the challenge to respond to the Open Letter about the big differences between drive life specs and what research on 200,000 drives found (see Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong and Google’s Disk...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 26, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
As promised in the Open Letter to Seagate, Hitachi, EMC, IBM, NetApp, HP and Sun, StorageMojo is giving this space to NetApp to respond to Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong and Google’s Disk Failure Experience. Props to NetApp for being quick off the mark...
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