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Sometimes it’s hard to predict just how “good” something can be

blog tbuiocchi e1332538899728 Sometimes its hard to predict just how good something can beI have to admit I don’t like the NBA. Just don’t like the style of basketball they play. But I am generally a hoops fan, grew up in New York, loved the Knicks as a kid, and live near Palo Alto, CA now. So I’m all over this Jeremy Lin “Linsanity” thing. And the best part of it is that nobody could have predicted it would happen and nobody knew how good Jeremy Lin would be in a Knicks uniform. Nobody.  I just got back from a trip to visit our top resellers in NY last week, and although everyone there is enjoying the Knicks and Giants, nobody had expected it.Continue Reading

Their other EMC-Dell-HP is a Drobo!!!

blog tbuiocchi 150x150 Their other EMC Dell HP is a Drobo!!!A funny thing happened when we introduced the Drobo B1200i in November last year. A lot of big companies started to buy it. Now we know who we are and we know who we aren’t – we focus on small-medium businesses and individuals who value modern, automated storage – and we clearly have not gone after enterprise customers. But when we saw more and more large companies start buying Drobos, we obviously took a closer look, asked a few more questions, and tried to understand why.Continue Reading

Welcome to our Drobo blogsite!

Tom Buiocchi, CEO @ Drobo

blog tbuiocchi e1332538899728 Welcome to our Drobo blogsite!Hi everyone, and welcome to the new Drobo blog. We’ve got quite a few exciting and new things to share in 2012 and we hope you’ll find this space very informative and interactive. I’m very much looking forward to taking our  conversations to yet another level. Thanks in advance for your participation.

At the end of 2011 we announced that over 200,000 Drobo storage systems are now deployed worldwide. And, for the first time, over half our revenue came in from Drobo products designed specifically for business. It’s been fun and very rewarding for me to be part of a vastly improved and transformed company, and the best is yet to come from Drobo in 2012.Continue Reading