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Help us test drive & document Drobo in media workflows

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 2 Comments

blog mblandini logo Help us test drive & document Drobo in media workflowsI usually start every blog post with a reference or observation, but will keep this one short. Folks who buy technology or anything of high value love reading reviews from real users. I was chatting with Ewdison Then of Slashgear, who has recently test driven a new BMW X1 Crossover in Japan. I was thinking that it would have been cool to see some Tokyo drift racing in the review …

Have YOU ever wanted to play with a cool new technology and see how fast you can go for yourself? … Continue Reading

Validation for Drobo B1200i in real-world testing

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

blog mblandini logo Validation for Drobo B1200i in real world testingDrobo is known as a cool company with cool storage. At events, countless folks stop by telling us they would love one for their house. And if they’re in IT, they soon realize that they also want it for work. For IT applications though, technology has to be more than cool. It has to work; and especially in SMB shops, they want to know it has been tested by a reliable third party. Working with ESG, we have a report with that validation. So, you can skip this blog and go straight to reading the report.… Continue Reading

The customer is always right

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 1 Comment

blog mblandini e1332538823856 The customer is always rightNot 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

Heterogeneous makes for a better environment

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

blog mblandini e1332538823856 Heterogeneous makes for a better environmentIn high tech we tend to use a lot of complex terms: environment, encapsulation, epicenter, infrastructure, scalability, tertiary, user-centric, virtualization … the list goes on. Heterogeneous is one of those terms. I rather like the “big H” word, generally defined as a variety of different elements mixed together. It applies to many facets of technology and to life as well.

Maybe it’s because I’m American and adopted, biologically mostly Irish + a dozen others, with an Italian name, raised in a Puerto Rican family in diverse San Jose, California. … Continue Reading

10 great ways big companies are using Drobo to tier storage and save $$$

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 2 Comments

blog mblandini logo 10 great ways big companies are using Drobo to tier storage and save $$$Hi, Mario @ Drobo, my first post here, looking forward to bringing solution-oriented discussion and analysis of real-world use cases to the Drobo blog!

These days, “tiering” is most often associated with mixing solid-state drives and different types of hard disk drives in a system. Drobo has super tiering technology for our model B1200i with Automated Data Aware Tiering, which automatically accelerates transactional and mixed-workload applications; no tuning or configuration required. A lot to talk about here in future posts. … Continue Reading