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As of today I'm writing for The Register as a storage and hardware editor. The intention is that the Blocks and Files content will be absorbed into The Register's content. No more will you be able to read endless lists of storage suppliers' press releases or quarterly results summaries. The invited opinion pieces will be no more. But the news stories and analysis and irreverence - without typos (!) - will continue albeit Registerized. Eg:
[more...]The China Syndrome
Chinese manufacturers of the new Chinese high-def optical disk format, CBHD, are having no luck hawking it around Holywood.
[more...]Overland restructures, replaces VP W-W Sales
Overland Storage has replaced its VP for world-wide sales, fired 53 staff and cut spending across the board as it rationalizes its operations following the SnapServer acquisition.
[more...]EMC blogger tears into HP and NetApp
EMC has set out to rubbish its competition on storage capacity efficiency and claimed its new CX4 array is much more efficient than HP and NetApp arrays.
[more...]IBM Quicksilver SSD project exceeds a million IOPS
IBM has demo'd a flash solid state drive setup more than twice as fast as the quickest SPC-rated RamSan-400 SSD from Texas Memory Systems.
[more...]Seagate's blooming Marvell of an SSD controller
Exciting news: Marvell's CEO did not say that an expanded relationship with Seagate was for Marvell's SSD controller technology - which we take to mean it is.
[more...]Adaptec vertically integrates by buying RAID ASIC technology
HBA and RAID controller supplier Adaptec is cutting its Intel RAID-on-a-chip supply strings from Intel and buying RAID chip and software supplier Aristos Logic for $41 million cash.
[more...]DataDirect brands existing feature as D-MAID - UPDATE
Extremely scalable storage supplier DataDirect has taken its existing sleep mode technology and branded it D-MAID, saying its dyamamism is better than the rigid static RAID schemes offered by Copan, EMC and HDS.
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Overland restructures, replaces VP W-W Sales
EMC blogger tears into HP and NetApp
IBM Quicksilver SSD project exceeds a million IOPS
Seagate's blooming Marvell of an SSD controller
Adaptec vertically integrates by buying RAID ASIC technology
DataDirect brands existing feature as D-MAID - UPDATE