Storage Soup
March 2008
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CERN black hole flak headed to court?
- Senior News Writer 28 Mar 2008 -
NetApp’s slogan snafu
- Senior News Writer 26 Mar 2008 -
Tape is dead, long live tape
- Senior News Writer 24 Mar 2008
Last August I wrote about Swiss research facility CERN and its plan to store petabytes of data from its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) device on commodity NAS and in tape silos for scalability and ...
Oopsie. The UK's Channel Register broke the story yesterday that NetApp's new slogan, 'Go Further, Faster,' is kind of, um, already taken. By, er, Halliburton. Eh, no worries. Not like that company ...
Ever since I started covering storage, I've been hearing the disk vs. tape debate, usually including proclamations that tape is dead or dying. There are good reasons to make that assertion. ...
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Mendocino Software, R.I.P.
- Editorial News Director 20 Mar 2008 -
User response about NetApp and FC LUN snapshots - UPDATED
- Senior News Writer 19 Mar 2008 -
Are storage vendors squeezing dedupe?
- Editorial News Director 19 Mar 2008 -
EMC Centera exec leaves for CAS startup
- Senior News Writer 18 Mar 2008 -
QLogic president quietly slips away
- Editorial News Director 17 Mar 2008 -
Interesting tidbits from around the storage blogosphere
- Senior News Writer 14 Mar 2008 -
NetApp’s messaging and users’ experiences
- Senior News Writer 13 Mar 2008
Not all storage startups either went public or got acquired for big bucks over the past two years. Mendocino Software sold little of its continuous data protection (CDP) software and found no ...
Last week, I blogged about discussions I've recently had with NetApp and NetApp customers about the company's messaging and products. One of the focal points of the debate was what users ...
As the first vendor to make data deduplication a key piece of the backup picture, Data Domain has benefitted most from the dedupe craze. And now it has the most at stake when deduplication becomes ...
EMC's Centera has been something of a question mark for many in the industry over the last 6-8 months. Rumors seem to continually swirl around a major overhaul or replacement for the first ...
QLogic opened last week by declaring it has 8-Gbit/s HBAs and switches available, and ended the week by quietly disclosing the resignation of its president and COO Jeff Benck. The connection ...
The storage market is a vibrant one right now, and as social networking concepts like blogs become more popular in the corporate world, the storage industry has a lively, varied blogosphere to ...
NetApp has been on the radar screen more than usual this week, with the announcement of its rebranding campaign followed by its Analyst Day 24 hourse later. When I've written about NetApp over the ...
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What’s your digital footprint?
- Senior News Writer 13 Mar 2008 -
EMC/IDC report: in storage, corporations are getting personal
- Senior News Writer 11 Mar 2008 -
NetApp really DOES have a heart
- Senior News Writer 10 Mar 2008 -
Brocade buys data center expertise
- Editorial News Director 04 Mar 2008
The other day I blogged about an update to the "Digital Universe" report EMC sponsored with IDC, which amended estimates of the size of said digital universe upward. Today while surfing around I ...
EMC and IDC have published an update to their Digital Universe report, which met with skepticism when it was originally published last March. We're generally skeptical of vendor-sponsored analyst ...
My fellow children of the 80's will remember an anti-smoking PSA by C3PO and R2D2 from back in the day that ends with plaintive line from C3PO, "R2? Do you really think I don't have a heart?" That ...
Brocade today said it intends to buy private professional services firm Strategic Business Systems, Inc. (SBS) today, a reflection of how services have become a big piece of large storage ...