While getting some hands-on time with Iomega’s new 12-drive storage array, I spotted an exciting but unannounced feature: The ix12-300r includes native Avamar backup client! It also includes two PCI Express slots, bringing up intriguing possibilities for future expansion.
The Rebirth of Overland Storage
March 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
It’s been a long, strange trip for Overland Storage. Best known in recent years for the tape backup libraries it sold through Hewlett-Packard, Overland is in the midst of an iSCSI-focused renovation at the hands of former Snap Appliance and Data Robotics execs. Could this reboot breathe new life into Overland as well as the SMB storage market it is focused on?
Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way
January 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Enterprise Computing: Is iSCSI The New Home Protocol?
November 26, 2009 By 3 Comments
I’d like to think I’ve visited a lot of customer sites over the years. Admittedly most of these are “enterprise” class with multi-terabyte if not petabyte quantities of storage. None of those customers have ever bothered deploying iSCSI as their storage protocol. Invariably block storage has been implemented using fibre channel and file using CFS [...]
WD’s 1 TB Laptop Drive? Not Quite!
July 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Western Digital announced this morning the world’s first “1 TB mobile hard drive!” But although the news is great for storage-hungry folks looking for a portable external drive, it doesn’t quite mark a sea change in the storage industry since this drive cannot be used in (most) laptops.
Not For Laptops
As we’ve discussed before, modern laptops [...]
Does Hitachi+SimpleTech = EMC+Iomega?
February 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment