At Storage Networking World in Phoenix this week, there was a buzz in the hallways and over breakfast tables about the T-Mobile Sidekick outage that was due, according to Microsoft, to "a system failure that created data loss in the...
Read More »For the last two decades, RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) controllers have ruled the storage world. RAID has been required for data protection in disk arrays. RAID schemes (RAID 0,1,6 10, etc.) reside on RAID controllers baked into disk...
Read More »Earlier this week, EMC revealed that it has attracted longtime Intel executive Pat Gelsinger to run its storage business. Gelsinger is set to become president and chief operating officer of EMC's Information Infrastructure Products (virtually all in EMC's product group...
Read More »For a storage guy, last week's VMworld 2009 in San Francisco was a great show. All the familiar storage vendors were there and then some. Walking the show floor, I found them to be uniformly positive about traffic and the...
Read More »NetApp's new CEO is Tom Georgens. Georgens steps in as Dan Warmenhoven, NetApp's CEO since 1994, moves on to the position of chairman of the board and a partnership development role under the direction of Georgens. Warmenhoven's accomplishments were many,...
Read More »There is a big disconnect between how long people think they should be storing data and how long they actual can. One group of vendors and academics is trying to change that. Two years ago, the Storage Networking Industry Association's...
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