I was recently briefed on the latest Symantec Disaster Recovery Study (2010), the details of which can be found here. Some 1700 companies (of 5000 employees or more) were interviewed about various aspects of their backup environments. As usual with these kind of surveys, there were [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is a guest post from Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO and co-founder of Gluster Inc.
In the virtualization foot race, the server has clearly been playing the role of the hare, with storage—a.k.a., the tortoise—bringing up the rear. The technology innovation in server virtualization got a lengthy headstart on [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Storage Beers will informally take place with vBeers this week on Thursday 2nd December at The Cittie of Yorke in Holborn; details here:
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/44/446/Cittie_of_Yorke/Holborn
I’ll be there from around 6pm in the main bar; look out for me @storagebod, or Continue Reading This Post →
Chris Mellor recently speculated on Compellent and the additional horsepower of their new storage product releases – series 40 controllers with Storage Center 5.4. Over dinner last night, we discussed how various features could be integrated into the current architecture. Many of them are surprisingly easy [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Despite protestations to the contrary, it seems that Ireland has finally accepted EU bailout money to the tune of some £77 billion. This final humiliation sees the end of the economy dubbed “The Celtic Tiger” which was characterised by the establishment [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Here we go with another video, this time a quick interview with Andy Walsky from Overland Storage. Andy talks a bit about the products, but of course there’s discussion about non-technical things, particularly those Netapp cycling girls, yellow wellies and Larry’s Robots. I almost went to the Netapp stand myself then realised there may be [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server. Previous posts:
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part II Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part III [...]
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