Word on the street says Drobo are planning a merger with Connected Data, the new company at the heart of the transporter product. Drobo, formerly Data Robotics Inc, makes a range of “storage robots”, devices that need little or no user management and come in [...]
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Reading this recent article on ZDNet I was struck by the pointlessness of Google’s 1TB of user storage offering. This may seem like a bold statement, but let’s look at the figures and the offering. If you buy a Chromebook Pixel, it comes with [...]
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At the end of August 2012, Amazon Web Services released their latest service offering – a long-term archive service called Glacier. As a complement to their existing active data access service S3, Glacier provides long term storage for “cold” data [...]
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This week has seen announcements from two companies I’ve been interested in and following for some time.
Nasuni
Nasuni makes a storage appliance that stores all of a customer’s data in “the cloud”. It’s available either as a physical device (effectively a server running their software) or as a virtual [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Nirvanix is one of the companies at the forefront of offering cloud computing services. Their key products are based around the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN); data can be stored and retrieved using a number of client applications, one of which is the Nirvanix CloudNAS product. I’ve been reviewing [...]
Continue Reading This Post →A quick Tweet with Chris Mellor just reminded me of something I touched on a few months ago but always meant to write about in more detail. It’s a semi-serious analogy (it is Friday after all) but there’s a hint of the possible about [...]
Continue Reading This Post →A quick check on Twitter this morning shows me they’re up to message number 1,179,118,180 or just over the 1.1 billion mark. That’s a pretty big number – or so it seems, but in the context of data storage devices, it’s not that big. Let me explain…
Assume Twitter messages [...]
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