Apple’s bizarre online store reboot this morning revealed that the next point-update for Mac OS X will be in the hands of the faithful this Friday, August 28! Many speculated on the purported September availability of the operating system upgrade, but today’s information clears the air. Although Apple’s web site clearly states that Snow Leopard […]
Archives for August 2009
EMC V-Max FAST: Coming in December … And 2010!
EMC’s Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) was one of the most welcome annoucements made during the Symmetrix V-Max introduction. It would be a significant modernization of EMC’s Symmetrix line, and would be one of the first unique features of the Symmetrix V-Max line. But many, including me, were disappointed to learn in May that FAST […]
2 TB Enterprise Drives Are Here?
That didn’t take long! Less than a month after Hitachi introduced their 2 TB enterprise disk drive, Xyratex has announced that they will offer the drive in their OEM storage systems. The A7K2000 is 7200 rpm 5-platter design with a 3 Mb/s SATA interface: Not exactly high-end, but backed by the reputable folks at Hitachi […]
Training Consumers To Jump For Phish
Never enter login or password information anywhere but the intended location! After a decade of this warning, why would people enter their username and password or financial account information on random web sites? Maybe it’s because the very entities who are supposed to be concerned about identity theft and fraud just keep trying to train […]
If Storage Vendors Were Automakers…
If the enterprise storage market was the auto market, who would be who?*