Just a quick bit of self-promotion… Stephen Bigelow wrote a nice iSCSI versus Fibre Channel article for SearchStorage, quoting me.
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Brocade Adds Thin Provisioning
This just in! Hot on the heels of, well, everyone else in the world, Brocade announced that it was adding thin provisioning. Sadly, they have no storage to provision, but they added the feature anyway. “We felt it was important to offer this importantly important feature across all of our products,” Neil Oone, Director of […]
Hifn Buys Siafu
Looks like storage security just might happen after all. Although EMC has done little to capitalize on their acquisition of RSA, I’ve been seeing a lot of interest in the security space for the last year. Take a look at NeoScale with their global key manager, and you’ll see an interesting twist on the security […]
Blogketing (re)Visited
The Storage Anarchist asks if corporate blogs are just so much marketing collateral. Well, to me, I always take them with a grain of salt. And not just those that directly emanate from a corporate domain name, either. Remember that Mr. Burke works for EMC and has blogged much more favorably about that company’s recent […]
Where is Linux in Storage?
Marc Farley’s challenge of listing all the devices on our home networks got me thinking —I’ve got an awful lot of Linux devices, but all of them are infrastructure rather than interactive PCs. Of the 10 devices currently attached my home network, four are Linux based (two TiVos, a Linksys router, and Linksys NAS), three […]
