Interviews

PC online backup screen real estate landgrab under way

Sony is shipping Spare Backup software with its Vaio PCs to provide an online backup service to users of its PCs. That was a surprise announcement, coming out of the blue so to speak. We fired a few quick questions off to Cery Perle, Spare Backup's CEO, and got a few quick answers fired back.[more...]

posted on 01 July 2008

InfiniBand or Ethernet for a converged data center network?

Brocade has just announced a big push to make Converged Enhanced Ethernet the converged network platform for server-to-server and server-to-storage networking in enterprise data centers. InfiniBand is also being presented as a converged network platform candidate. We were lucky enough to get a chance to interview Voltaire's Chief Technology Officer, Yaron Haviv, and ask him some questions about this. Here is what he said:-[more...]

posted on 27 June 2008

HDS looking at potential of deduplication in USP controller

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is introducing solid state drives (SSDs) into its offering. We had a talk with Bob Plumridge, Technical Marketing Director for Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) in Europe, and asked several questions about developments like this affecting HDS and its customers.[more...]

posted on 23 June 2008

A quick chat with Quantum

The rise of disk-to-disk (D2D) backup and virtual tape libraries (VTL) is causing an increase in the need for high availability arrangements.[more...]

posted on 20 June 2008

Dell sees flash in enterprise servers as well as PS storage

Blocks and Files discussed Dell's views on and use of solid state drives (SSDs) with Darren Thomas, the vice president and general manager of Dell Enterprise Storage.[more...]

posted on 10 June 2008

EMC on the Gartner flash SSD:HDD price trends

An EMC spokesperson kindly replied to questions concerning the apparently differing views on solid state disk (SSD) and hard disk drive (HDD) pricing trends between EMC and Gartner. (See EMC Versus Gartner http://www.blocksandfiles.com/article/5292 )[more...]

posted on 28 May 2008

Neverfail ensures SAN-less VMware never fails

B&F had a talk with replication vendor Neverfail about how its products integrated with VMware and other server virtualisation products. VMware has just introduced its Site Recovery Manager which would appear to compete with Neverfail's products. Andrew Barnes, Neverfail's senior VP for corporate development, was the man and the session is reproduced below.[more...]

posted on 27 May 2008