Storage Soup
March 2008
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Startup Fusion-io flashes its card
- Editorial News Director 31 Mar 2008 -
CERN black hole flak headed to court?
- Senior News Writer 28 Mar 2008 -
Sun fires another shot at NetApp
- Editorial News Director 27 Mar 2008
Fusion-io came out of stealth today with a PCIe flash card designed to give off-the-shelf servers SAN-like performance. Fusion-io calls its product the ioDrive, and it's NAND-based storage that ...
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 ...
Although NetApp fired the first volley in its ZFS lawsuit against Sun Microsystems, Sun has been the aggressor since NetApp's initial strike. Following NetApp's lawsuit last September charging that ...
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Joe Tucci’s game of catch
- Senior News Writer 27 Mar 2008 -
NetApp’s slogan snafu
- Senior News Writer 26 Mar 2008 -
Another storage analyst defects to a vendor
- Senior News Writer 25 Mar 2008 -
Tape is dead, long live tape
- Senior News Writer 24 Mar 2008 -
The economy and technology innovation
- Senior News Writer 24 Mar 2008 -
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
As a fanatical Red Sox fan and a storage reporter, the whole EMC-logo-on-Red-Sox-uniforms thing has been a matter of some, er, ambivalence for me. It's also been the source of some trash talk ...
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 ...
Barry Murphy, formerly of Forrester Research, has been named the new director of product marketing for Mimosa, tasked with "expanding the company's eDiscovery and content management partner ...
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. ...
I love listening to NPR. I listen to, watch and read many news sources, but I find the stories they choose and the nuances they bring to their reporting refreshing. I was listening to NPR this ...
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 ...
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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
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 ...