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Living without Microsoft – Introduction 24 Aug 2013 | 01:51 pm
With news of Steve Ballmer’s retirement from Microsoft, I thought it would be interesting to see how easy it would be to divest completely of all Microsoft products in both the consumer and enterprise...
Performance Tier or Capacity Tier? – No It’s the Working Set 14 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
There have been a couple of articles on The Register over the last couple of days talking about EMC CTO John Roese and his use of the terms “Capacity Tier” for VMAX storage and “Performance Tier” for ...
ScaleIO, EMC’s New Baby 7 Aug 2013 | 01:19 pm
Keeping up the theme of innovation in storage (yes, it exists, you just have to look), earlier this week I had a chat to one of the UK folks at ScaleIO, the startup now acquired by EMC. ScaleIO are a...
Tech Trailblazers 2013 4 Aug 2013 | 02:15 pm
Last year I was fortunate to be a judge of the 2012 Tech Trailblazers awards. After some intense scrutinising, awards were made across nine categories including storage and virtualisation. A full li...
SolidFire Update: New Products and Review 31 Jul 2013 | 06:16 pm
Last week SolidFire Inc announced the release of the latest evolution of their all-flash storage platform, the SF9010. This new system uses 960GB 2.5″ using the same 1U form factor as previous models...
Quick View: Micro SAS SSD 29 Jul 2013 | 06:43 pm
sTec have just posted a press release on their new Micro SAS SSD devices,which use the 1.8″ form factor. There are two models, the s842, which comes in 200 & 400GB capacities and the s846, with the s...
Quick Thought: Gartner SSD Market Analysis 16 Jul 2013 | 01:12 pm
Chris Mellor did a quick write-up on some of the details in Gartner’s latest SSD market report. The document, entitled “Market Share Analysis: SSD Component and SSD-Based Appliances, Worldwide, 2012″...
Thoughts on Backup and Restore 9 Jul 2013 | 08:19 pm
This week I’m at the Asigra Summit in Toronto, Canada. For those who don’t know, Asigra have been around since the mid 1980′s are a vendor of cloud-based backup solutions and predominantly sell throu...
HP Discover Storage Wrap-up on SDR News 28 Jun 2013 | 11:59 am
Here’s my final wrap-up interview with SDR News with Andy McCaskey on the last day of HP Discover. It’s a summary discussion on StoreServ 7450 and the new de-dupe VSA. I’m out done by the sartoriall...
The Fall of STEC and Rise of Western Digital 25 Jun 2013 | 11:59 am
In a news announcement yesterday, STEC Inc, makers of solid state flash drives (SSDs) announced a “merger” with (i.e. was acquired by) Western Digital, one of the leading hard disk drive manufacturers...
