October 20, 2009 3:35 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage networkingAnother piece of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) puzzle was put in place today when IBM said it will ship QLogic’s 8142 converged network adapters (CNAs) inside the Power Systems server platform for native FCoE connectivity.
IBM’s p Series servers run Unix and Linux operating...
October 19, 2009 4:24 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
data backup; disk-based backup; data deduplicationContinuing its strategy of upgrading its data deduplication appliances with faster processors and larger drives, EMC’s Data Domain rolled out bigger and faster midrange boxes today.
Data Domain’s...
October 16, 2009 6:13 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Heard and overheard at SNW:
Get ready for a mini-wave of block-based primary deduplication/compression products.
Perhaps the most ambitious primary dedupe product is WhipTail Technologies new Racerunner solid state disk appliances, which will ship with Exar’s Hifn BitWackr deduplication...
October 16, 2009 3:54 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data backup,
data deduplication,
storage vendorsFormer Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman, now president of EMC's data backup and recovery division, sat down for a Q&A with SearchDataBackup.com that's been getting some attention from the...
October 16, 2009 7:25 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
PodcastsAnother busy week, and I make my triumphant (if slightly raspy) return to the podcast.
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October 15, 2009 1:33 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storageThe Sidekick data-loss debacle may be drawing to a close.
According to a post on
October 14, 2009 8:51 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Data center energy efficiency,
disk drivesIn a week chock full of product news from Storage Networking World (SNW) and elsewhere, some new standards have slipped in under the radar that may become important once the dust settles.
The first of these is the announcement of a new Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmark for testing the...
October 14, 2009 8:40 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
data deduplication; data backupQuantum’s chief marketing officer said it was news to her that EMC customer are swapping out Quantum’s deduplication software installed on EMC Disk Libraries, as EMC division president Frank...
October 13, 2009 8:28 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Cloud storageEMC officials are saying today that a new blog post, which cites an anonymous source as saying an EMC
