Interviews
1 terabyte removable disk backup
There are several companies selling removable disk-based disk-to-disk backup systems. We've covered ProStor quite a lot and Quantum's GoVault was covered recently. Iomega's Rev has also had a mention or two but IdealStor has been somewhat neglected. Here Ben Ginster, IdealStor's channel marketing manager, gives us his views on the market and his competitors.
[more...]Ethernet storage switches may snoop the FCoE protocols
Solution Technology is putting on an FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) course, so we asked Robert Kembel, the course host, some questions about FCoE and what's happening with it. Here is what he had to say:[more...]
Cuckoo in the storage nest
Yesterday NetXen popped up out of nowhere as it were from a storage point of view and forced itself onto the storage FCoE radar screen.[more...]
Revinetix and deduplication
Blocks and Files had the opportunity to quiz Revinetix' VP of engineering, John Robertson, about deduplication and compression issues. Earlier this month Revinetix added file-level duplication capability to the operating system, RevOS, in its disk-to-disk (D2D) backup and archiving appliances. This prompted us to wonder about the company's views on sub-file level deduplication, cloud backup and other topics. We asked the questions and here are the answers.[more...]
Data center Ethernet and iSCSI
With a couple of Ethernet market trends going on simultaneously how are the roles of Converged Network Adaptors (CNAS) and TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) cards developing?[more...]
Clunk Click market positioning info
UK Online backup service supplier Clunk Click spokesperson Kirsch Bowker answered a few questions to help locate Clunk Click and its service in the online backup service landscape.[more...]
Memo: Pay attention to MemoPal
MemoPal is one of the new breed of cloud backup service providers along with EMC's Mozy Unit and Carbonite. It is based in Italy and adds remote file access to a users' files in the cloud.
[more...]Seagate - three more perp' recording generations
Blocks and Files talked to Seagate's Corporate Communications Manager in EMEA, Ian O'Leary, about the company's hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) plans. The answers show that Seagate foresees another three perpendicular recording generations, 2.5-inch disk drives gradually taking over from 3.5-inch ones, and an enterprise storage array SSD market entry:-
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Latest Interviews
1 terabyte removable disk backup
Ethernet storage switches may snoop the FCoE protocols
Data center Ethernet and iSCSI
Clunk Click market positioning info
Memo: Pay attention to MemoPal
Seagate - three more perp' recording generations