The B1200i is not the first iSCSI SAN storage device certified, and products such as the Dell PS4100E or EMC VNXe, which SMBs consider when looking for innovative modern storage, have vSphere 5.0 certification. Drobo B1200i delivers Thin Provisioning just like those products, but it also provides automated tiering with SSDs that those products do not. Tiering with SSDs is exactly the capability SMBs need to support their VMware environment. With Drobo they get both capacity and performance at a price they can afford for a 100% certified solution. That’s what’s unique.… Continue Reading
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Drobo B1200i = vSphere 5.0 certified = unique
Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink
March is a busy month for special days. First Pi Day, now World Water Day today, March 22. My daughter’s Girl Scout troop worked to assemble over 3,000 meals this week for shipment to Haiti to help relief efforts there. Many places on our earth do not have water security, including many places where water shortages are chronic. It is said that armed conflicts in the future will be waged over control of access to water – we cannot live without it.
Networking and storage share principles with fluid dynamics in the way that data flows. … Continue Reading
Backup appliances officially overtake tape … really
The decline of tape and rise of disk-based backup has been trending in the press a decade+, though only very recently has the worldwide market for backup appliances actually overtaken tape, wow! Drobo agrees with the movement, internally revenue from our business products overtook that of our professional products, in part because we help customers make the transition from tape to disk backup. IDC is behind the appliance news, and Storage Newsletter has a good summary of the data. … Continue Reading