Back From the Pile: Interesting Content From the Week of May 2, 2009
Posted by Stephen in Everything on 04. May, 2009 | View Comments
There were some interesting events and blog posts last week. This new weekly feature highlights those!
Enterprise IT
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Reliance On Backup Tapes – What’s wrong with backup tapes? They’re inaccessible, making them unsuitable for most applications. My latest post for my Enterprise Storage Strategies blog.
Is Licensing Turning vSphere Into Vista? – A [...]
3PAR Reserves A Seat At The Solid State Disk Drive Table
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 28. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
3PAR will use flash as “tier-0″ storage in their InServe arrays and is in the “flash is a drive” camp
Is the FCoE Starting Pistol Aimed at iSCSI?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 16. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
To hear this week’s storage industry news reports, one might think that Wagner’s fat lady came to Storage Networking World (SNW), singing her song as the iSCSI world collapses. Storagebod wonders what iSCSI’s death will look like. Chris Mellor at The Register says “Game Over” as NetApp, QLogic, Emulex and VMware join EMC and Cisco in singing the [...]
The Register Gulps Down Blocks and Files
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 01. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
News today is that powerhouse IT publisher, The Register, has snapped up storage industry reporting up and comer, Blocks and Files. Included in the deal is amusing editor/writer Chris Mellor and the back catalog of editorials. Left to rot are the sponsored (?) advertorials and regurgitated press releases. B&F will become a new storage-focused Register [...]
