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…
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…
LTO crushes other tape formats
I’ve been around long enough to remember when the tape format wars were among the more interesting skirmishes…
The Top Ten Storage Startups
ast year, the number of startups that entered the storage market just about equaled the number of storage…
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…
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…
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…
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…