by Robin Harris | Friday, October 13, 2006 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
Fighting rear-guard marketing actions – protecting a declining product or technology to keep the high-margin revenue coming in – isn’t much fun, but it sure is profitable. Especially in an area as conservative as storage. So it is a big deal when...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 15, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Apple’s “sneak preview” of iTV raised questions for most folks: why announce now? Will people download video like they do audio? Will the other studios join up? For me though, iTV answered a big question: is Apple porting ZFS to Mac OS X? So...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 14, 2006 | SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Almost two years ago I wrote about the catfight between disk and flash (see The Limits of Flash). It’s an entertaining market because we get to see the cut and thrust of the disk vs. semiconductor brawl at its rawest. I marveled then at thumb drive prices that...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 31, 2006 | Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over at InfoWorld, Tom Yager has posted a fascinating article titled Linux will get buried. It’s Not About Apple He proposes that Apple’s Unix revenue will overtake commercial Linux factory-install revenue by mid-2008. Which seems reasonable: Apple sales...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 25, 2006 | Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Update: In the comments Mark claims that the ZFS reference in Apple’s Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, proves that Apple is, in fact, working on porting ZFS: All filesystems on MacOS X are implemented using what’s called VFS plugins, these interact with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 21, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
One Terabyte Disk Drives Pre-Announced According to Cnet a Terabyte drive to debut later this year. They quote Seagate and Hitachi Global Storage execs talking about their intention to announce one TB drives later this year. 2007 delivery is implied, in case you were...
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