September, 2011

QLogic products hedge Fibre Channel over Ethernet bets

QLogic has announced three new and/or enhanced products this week–-a new HBA/CNA and switch, plus a router.

What’s most notable about these launches is the incorporation of so many storage/networking protocols into single devices; and that reflects...

Virsto and the exodus of intelligence from storage

Last week I blogged on storage moving away from the array and into the host as a result of the demands of server virtualisation. This week I spoke to a vendor -- Virsto -- that puts intelligence in the hypervisor to...

Fusion IO and the evolution of VM storage

Server virtualisation is responsible for a lot of changes to the world of storage. Initially, it drove a widespread move to shared storage. But now it seems the demands of virtual servers and desktops are driving storage away from the array.

Two recent...

Drobo’s sub-£10,000 enterprise-featured SAN

I spoke to Drobo yesterday about their new B1200i and two things stood out for me from the discussion. The first was the extent of enterprise-like features in a box put out by a company associated with the SOHO and desktop storage market. The second was that the cost of the B1200i probably...