IBM's Storage Announcements

Today IBM made a slew of new product announcements. None of it was a surprise due to lots of pre-announcement leaks and the fact the IBM session in Montpelier was to a certain degree the formal announcement of products already mentioned in standard press releases. I can only describe the new product...

September 8th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Could IBM be buying Netapp?

Over at Tech Trader Daily, Eric Savitz has picked up on a 6% rise of Netapp shares today. There are no theories as to why, but I have my own. Could IBM be planning to buy Netapp? If you think about it, the purchase would make sense. IBM is a huge reseller of Netapp as the N-Series. IBM can give Netapp...

August 27th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Off The Grid

I’ve been on holiday for the last week (sunning myself and the family in Cyprus). I had no Internet access – not even TV! Although I had no laptop (or Blackberry this time) I did take my iPod Touch, now configured with the mobile version of NewsGator. As I’ve mentioned previously,...

August 19th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Why Tape Technology Just Doesn't Cut It

There have been a raft of tape announcements in the last week, most notably the two 1TB wannabee’s IBM and Sun. For around a mere $37,000, plus the cost of a cartridge, I can backup 1TB of my most precious data. HP have also announced plans to extend the life of the DAT/DDS tape drive. If you...

July 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

FCoE

Fibre Channel over Ethernet has been back on my radar recently, especially as it was touted again at Storage Networking World in Orlando last week. Unfortunately I wasn’t there and didn’t see for myself, although I was in Orlando the week before on vacation. I can imagine if I’d extended or...

April 14th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

HDS and Hardware

I’m away on holiday at the moment (which is a blessed relief, looking at the Easter weather in the UK, no pun intended) however catching up with some emails I noticed the supposed post on Storagezilla’s site that IBM are to purchase Diligent. I nearly worked for the UK arm of Diligent many years...

March 26th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

2.5" is cool

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (the old IBM Disk Division) have announced a 500GB 2.5″ drive for laptops. Not particularly interesting I hear you say, however these latest drives from HGST now come in Standard and “Enhanced Availability” versions. The enhanced version claims...

January 7th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

XiV Part II

Following on from BarryW’s comment to my XiV post, I’ve been thinking over how the XiVarchitecture works. When a disk fails and the missing mirrors need to be recreated, then the data is likely to exist across all or most of the configured drives. Logically it would make sense that the...

January 7th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Two for the price of one

The holidays are over and it’s back to work for me. In fact I returned yesterday; the break was good however it is also good to be back. It seems that I’ve returned to a flurry of acquisitions. Yesterday there was the heavily reported (on the blogosphere) purchase of XiV by IBM. Tony Pearson...

January 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

SAN Virtual Appliances

LeftHand, FalconStor, Arkeia and Datacore all now offer VMware appliance versions of their products. I’m in the process of downloading them now and I’m hoping to install over the next few days and do some testing. I’ve previously mentioned some VM NAS products which I’ve installed...

September 14th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

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