Category: Bits & Bytes Blog
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NetApp Hit$ A Home Run
Maybe it’s a sign that the IT spending turnaround is ramping up, and maybe it’s just an indication of NetApp executing well, but the company wowed Wall Street yesterday with the results of its fiscal third quarter, which ended January 29. Highlights: GAAP revenues for the quarter were $1.01 billion, topping both internal and external…
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LTO crushes other tape formats
I’ve been around long enough to remember when the tape format wars were among the more interesting skirmishes in the storage industry. Remember LTO vs. DLT, DAT vs. AIT, 8mm vs. QIC, Stones vs. Beatles? Today, the LTO tape format commands 87.2% of the tape cartridge market (excluding mainframe-oriented formats), according to tape media market…
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SSD Marketplace As Yogi Berra–It’s Like Deja-Vu, All Over Again
I was reading a few trade announcements about SSDs today and had a flashback to the 1980s with the disk drive industry. For those of you not old enough to remember, there were well over 15 companies making disk drives back in those days. I am actually not sure of the number, and it changed…
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What are your post-lease options?
When your lease or warranty runs out (or even when you’re on lease or warranty), you have a number of options. You can undergo a total technology refresh and buy new systems from your primary storage supplier – an expensive option, and it’s likely that you don’t really need the latest and greatest gear. Or,…
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StarWind Offers Free iSCSI Software
iSCSI’s value proposition has always been lower cost than Fibre Channel SANs. StarWind Software is taking that value proposition to new levels with a free version of its iSCSI target software. Free iSCSI isn’t new. Most of the iSCSI initiators are free (including Microsoft’s) and a few vendors offer free iSCSI target software. However, most…