It’s acquisition month! After Siafu and Acopia, now comes Princeton Softech. IBM will undoubtedly spread their tech far and wide, or at least further and wider. Who’s next?
Archives for August 2007
Specialized Desktop Hard Drives
I will begin my overview of the specialized hard drive market with the ubiquitous desktop disk drive. While just about any drive could be used in a desktop computer, the class is generally defined by what it lacks – compact size, power efficiency, exotic interfaces, special drive features, and high performance are all generally not […]
iPhone Ahoy!
Shannon (my wife) got me an iPhone for an anniversary gift. Pretty cool eh? I’m typing this on it now. So far my experience has not been good. It locks up constantly, forcing me to restore it repeatedly. Not sure if I got a bum unit or if its a software issue or what. I’m […]
Big Little VMware Update (VCB and iSCSI!)
VMware released version 1.0.3 of VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) today. While a minor software rev wouldn’t normally warrant a blog post, this is anything but minor. VCB was a good idea, but implementation experience found it lacking. For one thing, it didn’t support iSCSI, which is a major omission in the world of Windows and […]
Specialized Hard Drives: Worth the Effort?
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz in the enterprise storage arena about whether so-called “enterprise drives” are really any better than plain-Jane hard drives in Enterprise applications. This came to a head with the controversial findings of Google and CMU, but it’s been simmering under the covers everywhere from TiVo communities to gamers. […]
