This weekend I took the kids to Staples to pick up supplies for the start back to school. Adam (Son #2) was looking for a folder to keep his homework and other assorted books in, when he spotted Filofax folders and decided that would work for him. It took me a while to [...]
It’s never a good day at the office when your shares drop by 20% in a single day. However the relentless drive to produce better results quarter-on-quarter is what the US stock markets demand of publicly listed companies such as Fusion-IO. Poor results this week saw their shares punished by a [...]
As I write this post, 2012 is already 6.3% completed. So, for the remaining 93.7% of the year, what can we expect the storage themes to be? What will companies be focused on and what can we expect from the vendors?
Data Reduction
The recent flooding in Thailand has had everyone on high alert about [...]
At SNW Europe this week I took some time to talk to Emulex about their OneCommand product. It’s been upgraded to version 2.0, which will be the subject of a post for another day, once I’ve had a chance to install and review it.
I also discussed the core of Emulex’s business, namely HBAs (Host [...]
As the vendor who introduced flash drives into traditional arrays some 2+ years ago, we shouldn’t be surprised that EMC has released an all-flash version of its mid-range array, the VNX. The new device, codenamed VNX5500-F can support up to 250 200GB drives for a maximum all-flash capacity of 50TB. EMC don’t say, [...]
This week I’ll be attending IP Expo, which has probably become the UK’s biggest IT event. You can find more details out at the IP Expo Website, but if you’re quick, entry is free.
I’ll be there both days and I’m pretty busy with vendor briefings, but if you are going, drop me [...]
There’s lots of news over the last 24 hours about the release of the latest Kindle device (the Kindle Fire) and yet another browser coming to the marketplace. The Fire will have it’s own browser, named Silk, using the analogy of silk cloth of being made up of many individual threads. Amazon Inc are claiming [...]
I don’t talk about company acquisitions too often but I can’t let the purchase of BlueArc by HDS pass me by without adding my opinion. First of all, for those of you who don’t know, BlueArc sells NAS hardware which has been resold by HDS for some years under the HNAS brand. The hardware comes [...]
I have to admit I was quite shocked to read on holiday that HP had decided to kill off the Touchpad and webOS after what can only be 2 months since launch. In fact at HP Discover 2011 in June, the Touchpad was centre-stage in all presentations, forming a consistent presentation layer for accessing Enterprise [...]
Last week I heard about a large organisation that experienced a double-disk failure on one of their storage arrays. As a result, major systems were down for nearly 8 hours. Double-disk failures (where a second disk fails within a RAID group while the first failed disk is being rebuilt) are rare occurrences but they can [...]
- Use Symantec and know your sensitive data is protected with industry-leading backup & recovery software.
Experience Symantec Backup Software
