August 28, 2009 8:30 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
storage vendorsYesterday, SearchDataBackup.com Site Editor Andrew Burton and I took a trip to Iron Mountain Digital's headquarters in Southborough, Mass., for some face-to-face meetings with Iron Mountain Digital's executives.
Those execs had plenty to tell us about Iron Mountain Digital's plans for the rest...
August 28, 2009 7:27 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
PodcastsAs mentioned below, it's been the Week of 8 Gbps FC.
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(0:24) NetApp begins rollout of Data Ontap 8
August 27, 2009 8:01 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
converged networksEmulex executives said yesterday that IBM has qualified a new Virtual Fabric Adapter for BladeCenter servers, which will allow the consolidation of Ethernet and Fibre Channel connections.
The Virtual Fabric Adapter is a virtual Network Interface Card (NIC) that goes into each blade server in the...
August 26, 2009 8:33 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
solid state drivesThe Holy Grail for SSDs is to make SLC performance cost as much as MLC, or, even better, as much as hard disk drives. The CTO of SSD manufacturer STEC says it won't happen, pointing out that every...
August 26, 2009 2:01 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
solid state drivesWhile there was a “flash” of NetApp’s solid state strategy evident in its product launch this week, a big part of it was missing in all the talk of Data Ontap 8 and the vendor’s cloud strategy....
August 25, 2009 10:56 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Fibre Channel SANsThere's a lot of 8 Gbps Fibre Channel going around these days.
LSI Corp. joined EMC Corp. today in announcing new support for the next leap in Fibre Channel throughput with the Engenio 4900 system it...
August 20, 2009 10:05 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storage,
storage vendorsReports from storage industry blogs and an a EMC Corp. customer event suggest EMC is getting ready to launch a new cloud computing service based on its Atmos onLine storage as a service offering.
Jeff Darcy, a software engineer and author of a blog dubbed Canned Platypus, reported after a...
August 19, 2009 9:00 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
NAS,
storage vendorsAfter 15 years as CEO – practically an eternity in the storage business – NetApp’s Dan Warmenhoven stepped down today and named Tom Georgens his successor.
The move was anticipated since
