Lots of folks use the expression, “having a field day” – mostly with positive connotations, like a day set aside for athletic competitions or a time of extraordinary pleasure or opportunity. From my time in the Marine Corps, a field day meant housecleaning and inspections (definitely not fun). Today at Drobo, we indeed had an extraordinarily positive experience sponsoring a Gestalt IT Tech Field Day event, the 4th time Drobo has been a sponsor.… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: April 2012
We had a field day and it was great!
“No IT Required”
Today the Drobo B1200i got an “auto-magic” boost with SSDs and our innovative Automated Data-Aware Tiering functionality on our flagship Drobo B1200i, bringing easy performance acceleration and affordable use of SSDs to small and medium business customers for the first time. The new B1200i system, sporting 18TB of traditional hard disk storage and 600GB of solid state drive storage, meets the capacity, data protection, and accelerated performance needs of small businesses. All in an easy, automated, and affordable package for under $18,000.
- “It’s the happy meal of storage,” cited one prominent analyst, an obvious foodie.
- “No, it’s the bento box of storage,” cried another. “It’s got some of everything.”
- “Tastes great, less costly,” echoed a third.… Continue Reading
Vote early, vote often for Drobo
The short list for the Storage Awards is out on www.storage-awards.com/ and we’re proud to announce that Drobo has been shortlisted in five categories. If you love your Drobo, vote for us (click the Vote Now link at the top left) – we think we have a pretty good chance! The Drobo B1200i is without question the “One to watch,” “Value for Money,” the “Disk-based product of the year – SME,” and the “Flash/SSD product of the year.” And we are the company “One to watch.”… Continue Reading
Reality is in the eye of the beholder
Technology has altered reality. Sporting events can be more vivid and higher impact on a 60+in HD flat panel compared to seeing the event live. Technology discussions can be faster and more interactive over the web using a live demo with displays and webcams compared to sitting in a room with a whiteboard. Technology enables new ways of doing things that really are better – not necessarily avatars and CGI – but a more efficient version of what is real.
Some real and really good analysis was posted today from someone with a very keen eye on reality for storage customers. Matt Prigge posted to his Information Overload column @ InfoWorld.com on “How to avoid a forklift storage upgrade.” … Continue Reading
Drobo-Veeam promos extended to Q2 by popular demand
Well, the people spoke and we gave away a lot of Veeam software in Q1. Because we want you to have the most affordable VM backup solution on the market, we’ve decided to extend the offer to Q2. Actually there are two Q2 offers in effect until June 30:
- Buy a Drobo iSCSI SAN array (B800i or B1200i) and get a FREE 90-day trial of Veeam Backup & Replication v6
- Buy TWO Drobo iSCSI SAN B800i arrays or ONE B1200i, and get Veeam Essentials Standard Edition FREE (2 socket version) – click here to find out how to get your FREE Veeam software.… Continue Reading
The customer is always right
Not unlike most folks, my first job was not in high tech, it was in customer service. I was a waiter in high school at a 24-hour diner prior to joining the Marine Corps. Before that, I was a paperboy for the San Jose Mercury News back when kids still delivered papers on bicycle. I earned carrier of the month in 1984 right about the same time that the popular Atari video game Paperboy was released.
In customer service, the motto “The customer is always right” is well understood.… Continue Reading
My favorite city-state for business and dining pleasure
I was south of the equator in my last post and this post is coming from north of it. Well, just 85 miles north of the equator in Singapore, where VMware held its Partner Exchange event for south Asia, a great chance to connect with resellers. The event represents a melting pot of VMware partners across the region, in keeping with the renowned food culture in Singapore that mixes Chinese, Malay, Indian, Japanese, and Thai with western cooking.… Continue Reading
Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and Hyper-V customers go shopping for storage …
This is the one where Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and Hyper-V customers go shopping for storage at Microsoft’s biggest partners but decide that Drobo is a better choice. We love this story.
We’ve just completed some customer research polling our business users, and I asked the team to cut the data to only those who were in pure Microsoft application or virtualization environments. … Continue Reading
Drobo in a land down under
I spent the end of the week in Australia, which is beautiful in the fall season. Can you believe it has been 30 years since the Men at Work song hit the airwaves and introduced us to the “land down under,” the old fashioned way (i.e., before YouTube)? I did not witness any man “chunder” while visiting Sydney as the well-known song would imply men do, but I did speak with many customers who are using Drobo business storage to back up and protect business data.
The discussions were very fitting, as it was just prior to World Backup Day.… Continue Reading