Stephen Foskett has been posting some interesting commentary over the last week relating to cloud standards and today discussed the Zend API for PHP. In previous posts, he’s mentioned the SNIA initiative amongst others. Have a look at this great post he wrote on why [...]
After a lot of second guessing by people, Dell have finally made that purchase and announced today they intend to acquire Perot Systems, which will become the services arm for the company.
There’s no doubt that Dell needed to do something to match the technology and services play offered by IBM and [...]
Earlier this month, Texas Memory Systems announced they had acquired the intellectual assets of Incipient, a company that produced SAN virtualisation hardware and software. With Incipient gone, EMC hardly bothering to mention Invista, what is the future of SAN LUN virtualisation?
I talked about Incipient last [...]
As regular readers will know, I’ve had a Drobo storage system for some time now. I’ve not had a bad word to say about the product – it just works and does what I expect it to do. However, there’s one function I think could do with some improvement and it’s the one [...]
We’re starting to see a flood of 2TB drives coming on to the market from all of the major hard drive manufacturers. This review covers the Western Digital WD20EADS, a 2TB SATA-II drive with green credentials.
The Basics
The WD20EADS is part of the Caviar Green range of drives. These are aimed at desktop computing [...]
On 1st September, Netapp announced a programme to give away $1,000,000 of hardware and services to a non-Netapp customer in order to “prove” their Virtualisation Guarantee – save 50% of your storage in virtualised environments. Now that challenge is available to UK customers – and this time it’s for a cool [...]
I’m on holiday this week, relaxing in the south of Spain with some lovely warm temperatures, which has been a boon compared to the summer we had in the UK this year. Part of my holiday reading has been Isaac Asimov and I’m ploughing through his short stories, currently one called “The Feeling of Power”.
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