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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:02:03 +0100 Needs 'appropriate opportunity'Comment Western Digital is open to entering the solid state drive (SSD) market when it presents "appropriate opportunity."… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:58:30 +0100 Not the boxes, the thinking...Reg primer Small and medium-sized businesses are the great untapped market for the computer storage industry. They remain untapped, for good reason. Money.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:31:58 +0100 A couple of blipsBrocade turned in satisfyingly solid results in its final 2008 quarter, beating its own guidance. The Foundry acquisition is on track, Cisco competition contained and it is preparing for a challenging first half in 2009.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:58:16 +0100 Storage doesn't have to spinComment When you are recovering from a long period of hard times and light appears at the end of the tunnel and gets closer and closer until you emerge into glorious daylight, you get a spring in your step and start making plans. Now you're back on your feet, the world becomes an oyster again, and you go off in different directions pursuing pearls. That's the feeling I get talking to Hitachi GST.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:50:52 +0100 Freebie teraflops for ISVsSC08 When it comes to parallel supercomputing, and indeed any kind of parallel processing, the hardware is the easy part. The systems software, including a tuned software stack and middleware for managing data, visualization applications for turning datasets into something human beings can use to make decisions or understand some phenomenon, is a bit trickier.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:34:41 +0100 We are not amusedLondon's Victoria & Albert museum has overwhelmed its original SAN with digitised images of its collection and is moving to a new one with room to grow more than 50 times larger.… Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:43:40 +0100 Tape backup not enoughFor EMC users, the tape backup world is not enough. These days, data is backed up to disk, deduplicated, and - horror of horrors - EMC shops might have NetApp and Data Domain boxes in them. So EMC has upgraded its Backup Advisor product to reflect these facts of life.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:09:32 +0100 Sealed cannister loveSolidifying the appeal of enterprise small form factor (SFF) SAS hard disk drives, Fujitsu is launching 10K and 15K rpm products, both with the 6Gbit/s SAS-II interface, twice as fast as 3Gbit/s SAS-I.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:31:00 +0100 Laptop cloud backupYou will soon be able to backup content on your Carphone Warehouse laptop to a data centre in the cloud, as Carphone W has signed a deal with Spare Backup.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:16:57 +0100 Is there room for another drive array manufacturer?Here's a new storage array for channel players looking for an edge, a more-for-less product. It's a 52TB, 4U box with SAN software that can scale up past a petabyte and comes from a supplier - IQstor - most of us have never heard of, as it supplies smaller OEMs.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:45:27 +0100 Foggy visionNetApp is refusing to give guidance for the next quarter. You can guess why.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:02:03 +0100 Clear out the redundant data to make clear spaceStripping out old records from primary databases could pay big bucks in terms of reclaimed disk capacity, faster database operations and backups. Clearpace has technology to do this and archive the extracted records in de-duplicated form on cheap SATA arrays.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:00:24 +0100 Pulls Acopia out of the dumpsF5 sold more gear in fiscal 2008 but earned less profit than last year. The enterprise networking and storage firm was held back by a late inability to ship product. Despite this it has pulled its Acopia file virtualisation business out of the mire caused by a collapse in sales to the financial sector.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:06:26 +0100 Surprisingly strong last quarter shockStorage networking supplier Brocade is parting company from its downbeat and depressed competitors by saying it hopes to report sparkling results for its fourth quarter.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:56:23 +0100 US private equity funder gets cold feet UPDATEDThe US private equity-funded buyout of Plasmon's US operation has failed, leaving Plasmon plc in tatters. The Kroll administrators are searching for a new company buyer.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:55:33 +0100 Maui lands on HulkMaui is erupting and its product is called Atmos. This is pretty appropriate as it's a cloud computing product and Atmos is atmosphere minus the spherical bit.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:02:04 +0100 Flash memory appliance speeds past RamSan 500Violin Memory's 1010 memory appliance is at last available with flash memory instead of DRAM. Positioned as a networked tier zero storage resource, it is said to be faster than solid state drives tucked in storage array drive shelves.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:02:03 +0100 Never lose notebook data ever again UPDATEDNever lose notebook data again. Not if you have a Dell notebook: the company is producing self-encrypting laptops with Seagate encrypting drives and McAfee security software.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:02:04 +0100 Ease on down that Amber RoadThe high priests of open storage have finally delivered products for our approbation, three of them. Sun's radically new 7000 line of storage appliances combines embedded servers, drive arrays and a comprehensive open storage software stack in a low-priced bundle. Will customers take the bait?… Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:23:19 +0100 15,000rpm SavvioSeagate has accelerated its Savvio 2.5-inch drive up to 15,000rpm and doubled its SAS speed, making it the fastest small form factor drive on the market.… Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:18:59 +0100 Brocade biting its ass?Here's something to cheer Mike Klayko, Brocade's CEO: network giant Cisco's storage revenues dropped 4 per cent year-on-year in its latest quarterly report. Cisco is playing a long game in storage and it looks as if Brocade is biting its ass.… Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:02:03 +0100 Scan paper documents and archive moreHP mounted an information explosion round table in London on Tuesday, saying there needs to more attention paid to information management, that paper documents should be digitally captured, and that unstructured information put in archives where better use can be made of it.… Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:13:45 +0100 Video surveillance storage bank seeks cashStart-up Atrato has made Steve Visconti, previously EVP for sales and marketing, its new CEO. The previous CEO, Dan McCormick, becomes chairman of the board and will focus more on fund raising.… Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:56:31 +0100 SAN Virtualisation Services PlatformHP is introducing a SAN storage virtualisation platform, using LSI software, to combine mid-range HP and third-party drive arrays into a single pool of storage.… Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:06:10 +0100 Thinks two heads are better than oneDell is going to have two de-duplication technologies, not a single de-duplication architecture across its products,… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:48:37 +0100 Welcome to tier zeroNetApp has abruptly extended its flash solid state drive (SSD) storage strategy by admitting a second use case into its SSD universe, one for specific workload acceleration through a tier zero drive shelf.… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:23:27 +0100 A romp with cowboy BillIn a storage press event today, Seagate said it was going to produce a network-attached storage (NAS) product for the home and and a hard drive able to plug into a TV and play media content. Its coming enterprise solid state drive will combine single and multi-level cell technology and a second attempt at hybrid drives will be made next year.… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:34:09 +0100 FAS 3160 is the third manNetApp is introducing a FAS 3160 in the middle of its mid-range FAS 3000 storage array line.… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:02:05 +0100 Biting off more than it can chewComment It was different a year ago - full of confidence, EMC head honcho Joe Tucci blithely told analysts about a slew of oncoming EMC products with codenames. Among them were Hulk and Maui, hardware and software to produce a new kind of clusterable storage system, a global repository scaling up to multiple petabytes in size. The hint then was that six months should see them come out into the open.… Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:39:22 +0100 Quantum of revenue solaceDell has jumped on the Quantum/EMC de-dupe bandwagon and is developing a single block-level de-dupe and replication architecture spanning its own, Quantum and EMC storage arrays.… Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:08:14 +0100 As GE spins own technologyHolographic storage developer InPhase has put its first drive ship date back to late 2009. Meanwhile GE thinks it has a CD/DVD-compatible holographic technology that can be made into a commercial product.… Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:23:27 +0100 Server crash puts prosecutions at riskTexas Governor Rick Perry has suspended the transfer of state files to IBM IT systems and fined the company $900,000 for data lost through back-up failures.… Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:02:05 +0100 Shadows on growth as lay-offs hit the storageThe recession is already knocking on the storage industry's door. A dozen storage vendors' results and forecasts show some already announcing losses and cost-cutting while others are waiting for the hammer to fall.… Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:41:55 +0100 iSuppli's gloomy forecastWorldwide NAND flash revenue will fall for the first time on an annual basis in 2008 and is predicted to fall in 2009 as well.… Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:10:58 +0100 Improving quarterly results but still a lossLeonard Iventosch, the previous and abruptly departed head of NetApp global channel sales, has turned up at Isilon as VP for channel and OEM sales.… Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:51:47 +0100 OPEX increase offsets sales riseBeating Wall Street earnings estimates, 3PAR grew revenues 61 per cent in its second fiscal quarter of 2009, although it reported a net loss compared to a profit in the previous quarter.… Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:41:17 +0100 Automated server and network configuration managementEMC has launched two products that are aimed straight at CA and Tivoli in the automated compliance and configuration management areas. Storage integration is lacking and will come next year.… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:02:33 +0100 DaftYes, Flash is expensive but this Super Talent Pico-C solid gold Flash bling thing is just ridiculous. For $599 you get 8GB of solid gold thumb drive.… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:42:08 +0100 Credit crunchedNow we know why the Foundry shareholder vote on the Brocade bid takeover was stopped three days ago - Brocade wanted to cut its bid price. Foundry shareholder resistance, as we thought, wasn't the stumbling block at all.… Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:52:53 +0100 For FCoE's sakeEmulex is not leaving the storage array FCoE interface business to QLogic and says it could announce a brace of storage vendor design wins by the end of the year.… Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:52:55 +0100 Taking the market temperatureWhat's special about IBM's Quicksilver? Texas Memory Systems has launched its RamSan 5000 flash solid state storage product offering one million IOs per second - and it's available now, not in many months time.… Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:02:03 +0100 Hopes for Happy ChristmasIt could be a happy Christmas for Fujitsu Siemens Computers, with its continuing existence confirmed by that date.… Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:32:33 +0100 Finally answers Data Domain, Quantum, and EMCNetApp has added block-level de-duplication to its Virtual Tape Library (VTL) product line and claims an up to 20:1 de-duplication ratio. At last, the company has an answer to Data Domain, Quantum, and EMC.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:02:03 +0100 High-capacity hard drive shoot-outReview Western Digital offers its Caviar desktop drives in three varieties that are identified by a handy system of colour coding. Caviar Green is cool, quiet, eco-friendly and - to be frank - lacking in performance. In the mid-range, we have Caviar Blue, which offers performance and reliability with up to 16MB of cache and a maximum capacity of 750GB.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:50:53 +0100 Have you hugged your storage manager today?Whitepaper It's a shame storage is so boring - or at least, that it is perceived as such by anyone that isn't actually into storage. A cursory glance from the balconies at Olympia, at last week's Storage Expo would suggest it's anything but dull - there are indeed plenty of people who have a deep interest in all things relating to how information is retained, maintained and ultimately destroyed - and they certainly seemed to be having an animated time of it all, particularly when the cases of beer were cracked open about 4pm on day one.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:15:37 +0100 No silver lining hereComment Another huge heaving grunt of a move as Microsoft shifts its great fat rear to sit more comfortably on the changing furniture of the computing industry and offer cloud computing services. It could be very bad news indeed for the storage industry.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:02:03 +0100 Drives chassis approach3PAR is going to add tier zero solid state drive (SSD) storage to its arrays. Its InServe array software can use it now.… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:12:49 +0100 Block-level VTL de-dupe before year-endFrustrated by drawn-out development schedules, NetApp has put all its US-based engineers to work on merging 7G and GX, its two ONTAP operating systems.… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:04:36 +0100 Hey, who took my WAFL?NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz has challenged Sun to come to court now and get the ZFS-WAFL IP case sorted as fast as possible.… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:40:53 +0100 Suffering from shareholder wobbleBrocade's bid to take over Foundry has stumbled because not enough Foundry shareholders are in favour of the deal.… |
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