More Thoughts on MapReduce
Here are some more thoughts about MapReduce, this time on storage. Let’s say you have 128 nodes, with…
Guest Blogger: DCIG’s Jerome Wendt On The Future Of RAID
There was a sizable uptick last month in the readership of a blog entry that appeared nearly two…
What Is Progressive Deduplication?
Arkeia Software is putting the final touches on the 9.0 release of its Arkeia Network Backup software, which…
NetApp To Acquire Bycast For Cloud Storage Software
NetApp is advancing its efforts in the cloud storage market with the acquisition of Bycast, a developer of…
The Top Ten Storage Startups
ast year, the number of startups that entered the storage market just about equaled the number of storage…
Gartner Exposes FCoE “Myths”
Much of the talk about the demise of Fibre Channel relates to its prospects as a disk drive…
Emulex vs. QLogic: Who’s On First?
The Dell’Oro Group market research firm recently released market figures for SANs, including Fibre Channel HBAs. Both Emulex…
Top 10 storage acquisitions of 2010 (and 1 prediction)
It’s hard to believe that there’s already been 10 storage acquisitions this year, but in fact there were…
The Top Ten Storage Acquisitions of 2010
I originally posted a Top Ten acquisitions list in September, under the assumption that after the blockbuster HP-3PAR…
Dell to acquire Ocarina for data deduplication
Dell dropped a bombshell on the data deduplication market today with the announcement that is has signed an…