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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:55:41 +0200 2.5-inch SATA spinning at 10k RPMsWestern Digital is making a play for the enterprise storage market today by stripping the bulky heat sink attached to its 10,000RPM VelociRaptor drives and liberating the small form-factor disk that's been locked inside all along.… Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:25:01 +0200 Enclosure lets you make your own solid-state driveWant to replace your system hard disk with an solid-state drive? Want to take advantage of RAID? Want to use the cheapest Flash? Thanks to Taiwan's Raidon, you can.… Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:02:12 +0200 That leaves us and The Drudge Report...EMC's suite of enterprise content management tools are getting a massive 'Web 2.0' refresh over the next year.… Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:36:29 +0200 RamSan, thank you 'mamTexas Memory Systems has introduced its RamSan-440 DRAM-based solid state drive (SSD), with half again as much I/O bandwidth as its predecessor and a quadrupled capacity.… Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:20:55 +0200 Beget Methuselah SSDsSamsung and Sun Microsystems say they've found a veritable fountain of youth for data center solid-state drives.… Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:41:50 +0200 Armageddon foiled by back-up back-upEMC is rolling together two of its recent acquisitions into a storage bundle that combines both local and remote data backup.… Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:34:21 +0200 More tidiness plannedSeagate says the storage market is chugging along just fine, but the company's late-mover position in notebook and nearline markets made for a disappointing fourth quarter.… Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:15:04 +0200 Denies alleged sexist waysEMC ignored internal discrimination claims from female employees whilst fighting a class action lawsuit filed by other female employees.… Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:37:26 +0200 Ha-ha. Ours is faster than yoursIBM has launched its 1 terabyte tape drive the day after Sun launched the T10000B, and its is 33 percent faster than the Sun product.… Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:27:38 +0200 DAT 320 gets fatHewlett-Packard and Sony are putting their heads together again to make a denser breed of Digital Audio Tape drives and cassettes.… Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:54:51 +0200 Something even easier for civil servants to mislayFlash-fancier SanDisk's mission to eradicate all recording media and replace them with solid-state storage continued today with the release of an SD card you can only write to once.… Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:21:55 +0200 An archival milestoneSun has introduced the world's first tape kit to hold one terabyte of raw data, the StorageTek T10000B.… Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:36:51 +0200 San Diego storage startup goes titsupNotorious San Diego, California-based startup The Linkup (aka MediaMax) has gone titsup.… Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:29:08 +0200 Memristor work continues apaceResearch work on HP's never-ever-forget Memristor concept is proceeding apace. Memristor technology could provide a new type of computer memory that's much faster than flash memory. HP Labs' engineers in Palo Alto have demonstrated control over how the technology operates, opening the door, they say, to its incorporation into integrated circuits (ICs).… Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:28:19 +0200 The pitter platter of beastsOne terabyte hard drives still cramping your decadent data storage lifestyle? No more tears. Seagate is rolling out 1.5TB HDDs this August.… Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:15:59 +0200 'More attractive' pricing on the waySamsung has the factory hamster wheels oiled and has started mass-production of 128GB solid-state hard drives.… Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:34:23 +0200 JBOD army arrives with Thumper 2Sun Microsystems is trying to inject some much needed vim and vigor into its storage business by dosing the operation with extra cc's of open-source therapy.… Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:02:03 +0200 'Infinite-capacity' data safe gets fasterData Robotics has launched the second generation of its Drobo "data storage robot", upping the unit's data-handling speed and adding a pair of Firewire 800 ports to the original's USB connector.… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:02:03 +0200 Why so maligned?Optical drives should be popular. They hold lots of gigabytes, can be intrinsically WORM and hold data for a guaranteed 30 years or more without the periodic refreshes needed by tape. But they are simply not used as a general data archiving product by business, having become niche products in areas such as medical image recording.… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:45:48 +0200 Hitachi promises 1TB per square inchHitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:47:45 +0200 The HDD that can be soaked and burntIf you thought that viruses were one of the most likely things to damage your data, then think again - it could well be fire and water. Thankfully, there’s a solution.… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:30:19 +0200 Stolen, found, loaned, lostLike ball point pens, cigarette lighters, and the occasional key, flash memory devices have a nearly unstoppable need to be set free upon the world at large.… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:23:29 +0200 'We guarantee something'Pillar Data Systems is topping off its lineup Axiom storage systems with a box supporting a healthy chunk more capacity and performance than its predecessor.… Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:52:24 +0200 Free at last with a virtual fire saleAdaptec has finally got out of the loss-making Snap Server business and, by buying it, Overland Storage has gained a valuable addition to its ULTAMUS primary storage product line.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:35:06 +0200 Botched settlement results in more blogs of furyThe war-of-words between Sun Microsystems and NetApp over patent infringement claims wages on, while legal means to settle the matter have failed.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:37:51 +0200 A FANless acronym fiestaAt a presentation to analysts this week Brocade talked about a growing Fibre Channel market, an expanded HBA product line, new fabric core capabilities such as encryption, replication and deduplication, and FCOE and services. There was no mention of FANs (File Area Networks) but file virtualization was discussed.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:20:11 +0200 The disc that lasts for 200 yearsA lot of things can happen in 200 years, but one thing data storage disc manufacturer Delkin Devices guarantees won’t occur is data loss. That’s because the firm’s launched a Blu-ray Disc reputedly capable of retaining content for two centuries.… Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:08:15 +0200 'You could use some more DR over here, Jim'You may not be a Fortune 100 company, but you deserve tiered storage too, right? Right?!?!… Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:17:50 +0200 Mommy, Wow! Feds are happy nowData Domain is teaching its de-duplication boxes a new storage retention trick to satisfy those picky government regulatory-types when they come sniffing the machinery.… Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:09:28 +0200 Redundancy cruncher for the big boysAdds different enterprise deduplication product alongside SME D2D ones… Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:45:04 +0200 The charmed life of a disruptive firmAnalysis For HDD manufacturers the whirlwind, the silicon sandstorm, has literally come out of the desert, the Iranian desert as it happens. In the shape of STEC, a booming Californian company with greatness being thrust upon it, the hard disk drive (HDD) triumvirate of Hitachi GST, Seagate and Western Digital face the biggest disruption they could imagine with, potentially, their products being replaced by flash memory-based solid state disks (SSD).… Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:11:49 +0200 Wee SAS for your DASFar less glamorous then bleeding edge solid state drives, small form-factor SAS disks are, all the same, making tracks in corporate storage systems.… Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:02:02 +0200 Ward's way for relief from data obesityAnalysis Copan has an infrastructure suited to thousands of customers when it has just over sixty. What is going on? Building for the long haul and a future as a billion dollar revenue company seems to be the end result of the script being used to drive the company.… Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:12:24 +0200 Pillar pattedOne of the top block storage virtualization products, IBM's SVC, just got better. It is getting thin provisioning, confirming a virtual pre-announcement in April.… Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:30:50 +0200 SwapDrive swaps ownersSymantec Vision '08 Symantec has stealthily purchased the online storage firm SwapDrive, slipping a reported $123m into the startup's pocket to flesh-out the consumer side of Symantec's web services.… Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:16:00 +0200 Cache-serving modules and appliances for HPCNetApp is trading in its current midrange FAS3000 and V3000 storage systems for some boxes with a bit more power capacity under the chassis.… Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:33:43 +0200 Netbackup integrates de-dupe and CDPSymantec Vision '08 Symantec's data protection suite received its annual booster shot of new features at Symantec Vision in Las Vegas this year.… Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:59:03 +0200 Storage management with a server virtualization twistSymantec Vision '08 Symantec is teaming up with Citrix to attack the server virtualization market. The storage management firm has stirred Citrix's Xen code into its Veritas suite in a new offering arriving later in 2008.… Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:18:56 +0200 Living information takes on the dot in dot-comHow do the flash solid state disk (SDD) strategies of EMC and Sun differ?… Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:53:09 +0200 InPhase still InDenialHolographic storage developer InPhase Technologies has been promising the imminent arrival of its 300GB Tapestry drives for three years. But the constant setbacks and delays have now forced the Longmont, Colorado-based firm to cut a substantial amount of its workforce, according to several reports.… Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:48:58 +0200 Clearly, we're all in the wrong businessEMC has been spending a pretty penny to lobby the US government in the first quarter. The storage vendor disclosed it payed out $730,000 wooing Washington in only three months — a personal record since it began disclosing its lobbying activities.… Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:22:07 +0200 Hold me closer, tiny laptopComputex SanDisk is prepping a new line of diminutive solid-state drives (SSDs), designed specifically to fit the cramped quarters of low-cost PCs and laptops.… Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:17:25 +0200 SSD option in every server by 2010Sun Microsystems is completely smitten by Flash memory technology. The company today has vowed to start rolling out Flash-based products by the second quarter of 2008, and plans to offer SSDs in its entire server lineup in only two years time.… Fri, 30 May 2008 22:44:20 +0200 Stronger competition for NetAppTo better compete with NetApp, EMC is to launch a low-end version of its Celerra NSX NAS gateway product.… Thu, 29 May 2008 21:02:47 +0200 How big will Seagate's dash for flash splash be?The ebullient Seagate CEO Bill Watkins has made it clear that Seagate thinks flash solid state drives (SSDs) are interesting and Seagate will sell them - but not yet. When Seagate does sell a Seagate-brand SSD how will it make it? Will there be a Seagate flash foundry?… Wed, 28 May 2008 15:58:33 +0200 Backwards compatible with Blu-rayCall/Recall has announced it is developing a 1TB optical drive and disk, backwards compatible with Blu-ray, in partnership with with the Nichia Corporation of Japan.… Tue, 27 May 2008 21:36:05 +0200 Xsigo to storage blades: lemme I/O youVerari Systems is now packing its network storage blades with a virtual I/O appliance, courtesy of a partnership with Xsigo Systems.… Thu, 22 May 2008 02:17:37 +0200 Q4 revs up, earnings flatDespite reinventing itself with a "bold blue" new brand identity this quarter, NetApp's net income was practically flat in Q4 2008.… Wed, 21 May 2008 00:24:44 +0200 Enterprise SSDs match high-end disk prices by 2010?EMC predicts the end is nigh for rotating drives dominating data center storage.… Mon, 19 May 2008 20:46:11 +0200 De- duplication, spin down, low-power drives and simpler softwareEMC has, as expected launched its Quantum software-based, de-duplicating, disk backup products. But it has also announced spin-down and low-power drives, simpler Networker backup software, and updated Avamar source-based deduplication products.… |
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