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Series 5Z … what would you like to know?

Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

Adaptec released a new product today/yesterday (depending where live and how late it is) … and of course I’m not going to sit here and blatantly advertise it … that would not be bloggish of me. You can find it all over the web (once you work out how to set Google to find only […]

I’ve been made redundant …

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

Technologically speaking that is (though it’s a scary thing to say in this day and age). It’s pretty bizarre when I find a “blog” is now an outdated form of communication.
If you go to the Adaptec home page, down on the bottom right hand side is the “Follow Us” tab. Inside you’ll find Facebook, Twitter […]

So where’s the focus?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

Off tomorrow to do another trade show … the usual tyre-kickers intermingled with a very intelligent crowd of business people interested in finding out where the future of storage lies.
Trouble is, of course, it depends on what magazine you read, or analyst you listen to, as to what the future holds.
Personally speaking, I’m finding a […]

In a spin about not spinning …

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

In a spin about not spinning …
I hope people appreciate how long it takes me to come up with these snappy headlines.
Just spent a few days at Computex in Taiwan … wading through a mountain of new equipment, motherboards, memory modules and especially, importantly and all-pervasively … Solid State Drives (SSDs).
They were everywhere. It seems […]

Don’t just hate it when …

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

I was just in the middle of writing an article on “clouds” when my article disappeared into one (and of course I’m such an expert on this software that I have no idea how to retrieve it). Therefore I’ll just start again in slightly less cheery state of mind …
Reading my local computer rag “Computerworld” […]

Of speeds and feeds …

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

Kash posted the following as a reply to a Tom Treadway post. Since out of respect I won’t continue Tom’s posts I’ve made a new post in regard to this …
I took 7 SATA 300 drives of varying sizes (2 x 640GB, 4 x 500GB, 1 x 1TB) from different manufactures (WD 640, Samsung 640, […]