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 | Thursday, April 6, 2006 | Enterprise |
Several people have graciously noted (and several less so) that by including encrypted data in the list of what could be compressed, I committed a mathematical faux pas. They are absolutely correct. While I knew enough about compression to know that 25x is way beyond...
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 | 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 | Saturday, April 9, 2005 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Not as sexy as getting horizontal, but a lot more space effective. In case we were wondering if disk drives were going to continue their phenomenal capacity growth for the next few years, now we know. But I’m not really writing about that, which will be old news...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 31, 2005 | Enterprise |
The Computer History Museum holds occasional lectures and panel discussions, and they finally had one on storage. Hosted by the venerable Jim Porter (whose firm, Disk Trends, did the most reliable storage market research in the industry until he folded it a few years...
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