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The evolution of a backup strategy from beginner to expert

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Nora Weintraub • 1 Comment

Welcome Dave Seeram, Editor in Chief and Owner of PhotographyBB Magazine for our first guest post. With the mission of providing a positive and supportive learning environment for beginners, Dave strives to achieve the perfect blend between inspiration and education to amateur and intermediate-level photography enthusiasts. (He also drinks coffee, but secretly prefers tea maybe because he’s a Canadian living on the west coast in British Columbia!)

Have you ever lost important files or data? As our lives become increasingly digital and as a result, less tangible, we live through illuminated screens, where our communication with one another and even our memories are kept through status updates, e-mails, digital images and video. How would you feel if tomorrow, all of your data just disappeared? … Continue Reading

Drobo in a land down under

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

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

There is always room for Pi (“pie”)

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

A month after Valentine’s Day comes “Pi day” on 3/14. Rather than reflect on love, Pi day provides the opportunity to ponder the transcendental nature of the best-known number that continues infinitely without repeating. Certainly much deeper contemplation seems appropriate than on other days of the year. On another special day this week, it was great to welcome back über-expert Rick Vanover to the Drobo Broadcast Network. and I want to reflect on that a bit. Small businesses often think that they cannot get all of the capabilities that large companies can enjoy with their larger budgets and a bigger IT staff. But that is what is so great about Dropbo + Veeam Backup & Replication. … Continue Reading

Drobo announces partnerships with #1 supplier of SSDs and #1 provider of cloud services

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 4 Comments

Today is a pretty big day for Drobo. Massive actually. Many storage companies are making announcements around SSDs and cloud, but very few can boast about having partnerships with OCZ and Amazon – the top provider of both technologies respectively. These announcements also set the stage for what our customers can come to expect from Drobo as we move forward into 2012 and beyond.

We do things a little bit differently here at Drobo. Just like other storage companies, we see SSDs and cloud as game-changing technologies. … Continue Reading

Harmonious overtones from a great ensemble

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

Defined as “a group producing a single effect,” an ensemble combines several parts generating a powerful result. Every technology solution is a group of harmonious elements, whereas the solution is the single effect. The power of an ensemble is much greater than the sum of its parts. I’m sure you’ve experienced for yourself how parts in harmony deliver overtones for a combined sound that is perceived to be greater.

This has been a fun week @ Drobo, as we announced several partnerships, including a solution with Amazon Web Services. … Continue Reading

Heterogeneous makes for a better environment

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

In 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

It takes a village – other storage is important

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

Unintentionally, this post continues to have political undertones. About 15 years ago, Hillary Clinton, the current US Secretary of State, wrote a book called, “It Takes a Village.” Clinton presented her vision for the children of America focusing on the impact individuals and groups outside the family have on a child’s well-being. At the time, many argued that the role of parents should not be diminished, but just about everyone can now agree with the idea that many influences are quite positive for the development and support of a child.

But how does this apply to storage …? … Continue Reading

Toronto VMUG – The storage scrum

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

My last post started with a Canadian reference, and this one continues the Canadian theme. Drobo was a sponsor at the VMware Users Group (VMUG) in Toronto, the biggest city in Canada and lesser known as #5 in size for the whole of North America. It was a great chance to meet up with current Drobo B1200i users such as the University of Toronto, and connect with many new folks to talk about the latest technology.

Why the storage scrum? It’s not related to the Canadian Rugby League, of which the first 4 domestic teams hail from the Toronto area. Hockey is tops in Toronto but did not pair well with the word “storage”. Moreover, with 18 of 29 sponsors in the storage space, it seemed that the discussion was tightly centered on storage, its role in virtualized environments, and the continued journey to the cloud.… Continue Reading

Where replication belongs – not where you’d think

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

According to Merriam-Webster, to belong is “to be suitable, appropriate, or advantageous,” for example, “a dictionary belongs in every home.” And Drobo belongs in any group of vendors you’re considering when looking for business storage. Some may say we don’t pass the suitability / appropriate test, specifically without support for storage-based replication. The reality for SMBs is that replication does not really belong on the end devices such as storage arrays – it is far more appropriate and much more advantageous for replication to exist on a server.

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