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When most companies think about disaster recovery, a variety of thoughts come to mind. If you search for a definition of disaster recovery, you will get [...]
Continue Reading This Post →It may come as a surprise, but many of the HDS attendees at the Geek Day are also bloggers and tweeters. I’ve compiled a list of those within Hitachi (including non-attendees) that I’m already aware of. Feel free to comment if there’s anyone I have missed. I recommend you follow these people on your RSS [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server.
Background
Promise Technology Inc have been manufacturing RAID controllers since 1988 and iSCSI storage systems since 2004. In 2007, the company released the first of the SmartStor devices, the NS4300, a fully-functioned home NAS storage array. [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Hitachi Geek Day has been and gone and I’m back home in the UK recovering from quick turnaround jetlag. Originally this event was known as HDS Bloggers Day and in actual fact was a day and a half long. Somewhere along the line the Geek monika was adopted and has been retained for the page [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Last week’s news reports that COPAN Systems are back from the dead after their purchase by SGI. The newly branded arrays have been tweaked (for example 50% of drives can be spinning on the SGI incarnation) but essentially the concept is the same; store shedloads of inactive data.
Here I am again on the start of another vendor blogging day. As the title of this post suggests, this will be a trip to see Hitachi, or HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) if you prefer. The Bloggers Day is taking place over two days and is located in San Jose, just south of San Francisco [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This time next week I shall be in the middle of the first HDS Bloggers Day, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday 15/16th June 2010. I’m well versed in HDS (or Hitachi, depending on how they preferred to be known) storage products, mainly their large enterprise arrays. I doubt we’ll see revelations on the upcoming USP [...]
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