Interviews
Memo: Pay attention to MemoPal
MemoPal is one of the new breed of cloud backup service providers along with EMC's Mozy Unit and Carbonite. It is based in Italy and adds remote file access to a users' files in the cloud.[more...]
Seagate - three more perp' recording generations
Blocks and Files talked to Seagate's Corporate Communications Manager in EMEA, Ian O'Leary, about the company's hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) plans. The answers show that Seagate foresees another three perpendicular recording generations, 2.5-inch disk drives gradually taking over from 3.5-inch ones, and an enterprise storage array SSD market entry:-[more...]
StoneFly sees Data Center Ethernet helping iSCSI
StoneFly is an iSCSI block storage software supplier and we had the opportunity to interview Jame Ervin, the firm's product manager and ask some questions to help us locate StoneFly in the storage landscape[more...]
Bare metal restoring and snapshots
If you have ever had to restore your PC's software from scratch; the complete software works from operating system to every last piece of software, then you will love the idea of bare metal restore; a single file to restore, containing every last software nut and bolt, everything, that is streamed onto your new hard drive in a single operation. How good is that?[more...]
PC online backup screen real estate landgrab under way
Sony is shipping Spare Backup software with its Vaio PCs to provide an online backup service to users of its PCs. That was a surprise announcement, coming out of the blue so to speak. We fired a few quick questions off to Cery Perle, Spare Backup's CEO, and got a few quick answers fired back.[more...]
InfiniBand or Ethernet for a converged data center network?
Brocade has just announced a big push to make Converged Enhanced Ethernet the converged network platform for server-to-server and server-to-storage networking in enterprise data centers. InfiniBand is also being presented as a converged network platform candidate. We were lucky enough to get a chance to interview Voltaire's Chief Technology Officer, Yaron Haviv, and ask him some questions about this. Here is what he said:-[more...]
HDS looking at potential of deduplication in USP controller
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is introducing solid state drives (SSDs) into its offering. We had a talk with Bob Plumridge, Technical Marketing Director for Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) in Europe, and asked several questions about developments like this affecting HDS and its customers.[more...]
A quick chat with Quantum
The rise of disk-to-disk (D2D) backup and virtual tape libraries (VTL) is causing an increase in the need for high availability arrangements.[more...]
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Latest Interviews
Memo: Pay attention to MemoPal
Seagate - three more perp' recording generations
StoneFly sees Data Center Ethernet helping iSCSI
Bare metal restoring and snapshots
PC online backup screen real estate landgrab under way
InfiniBand or Ethernet for a converged data center network?
HDS looking at potential of deduplication in USP controller