Monthly Archives: June 2010

Wow; this looks good; an Android-powered tablet that docks into a Cisco desk-phone and uses the phone’s IEEE 10/100/1000 wired link. Cisco says “you can push high-definition video from the tablet’s 7-inch display to an adjacent larger LCD monitor” via … Continue reading →

Jay Kidd is joining ProStor as an independent director. But he has not left NetApp, where he is an SVP in the Storage Solutions Group looking after product strategy and development. ProStor Systems makes the RDX removable disk drive product … Continue reading →

Here is a post from 3PAR CEO David Scott suggesting that my ideas in the Storage Killing Fields post were incorrect:- ———————————————— As a self-declared [:)] “best of breed” primary storage manufacturer, let me try to put an alternative position … Continue reading →

“Best of breed” is the rallying cry blaring out from non-aligned third-party vendors as integrated IT stacks form from the vBlock trio, HP, Dell, HDS and IBM. The integrated stack people say open industry standards are lifeboats for users in … Continue reading →

Name the common factor: Anobit, Pliant, SandForce, STEC, WhipTail, Virident? They are all start-ups focussed on bringing solid state storage to market. Hitachi GST, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital? They are all hard disk drive manufacturers with flash memory … Continue reading →

A TLA, meaning Three Letter Acronym is a fine although derided thing. Why is that? Actually we use two letter acronyms, such as VMs, I/O, and O/S, a lot and four letter ones too; IOPS for example. The derision view … Continue reading →

Brocade is putting out a message at its New York-based Tech Day on June 9th that it, because of its Foundry acquisition, can ensure the delivery of applications with understood service levels in the virtualised data centres that are coming. … Continue reading →

There us no upfront way with iTunes to get PDFs and other files not recognised by iTunes onto the iPad, unless you use the email kluge or buy GoodReader. There is a better way though, and that is to use … Continue reading →

Permabit is making noises about primary storage capacity optimization. What’s this? Ocarina talks about capacity optimisation, meaning reducing the amount of storage capacity needed for the data its technology is applied to. If Permabit is using the same language it … Continue reading →

I’m now a resident of Apple’s semi-walled garden and my home/office IT environment is an about-be-discarded Windows 7/Dell PC on the one hand and an Apple quartet on the other: iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and iMac. The MacBook replaced a Windows … Continue reading →