Archive for December, 2007

Taking out the trash

In a recent post, Hu Yoshida refrences an IDC presentation discussing the rate of growth of structured versus unstructured data. It seems that we can expect unstructured data to grow at a rate of some 63.7% annually. I wonder what actual percentage of this data represents useful information? Personally...
December 17th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

2.5" Enterprise Arrays

I was asked the question today, when will Enterprise arrays support 2.5″ drives as standard? It’s a good question, as at first glance the savings should be obvious; smaller, lower power drives, more drives in an array and so on. However things aren’t that simple. Doing the comparisons...
December 12th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More