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Drobo-Veeam promos extended to Q2 by popular demand

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 0 Comments

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

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

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

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

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Tom Buiocchi • 0 Comments

I 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

Using Drobo with Veeam just got a bit (maybe a lot) sweeter

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Mario Blandini • 2 Comments

Hello from Jim Sherhart, Marketing and Business Development @ Drobo

We have long been advocates of using our award-winning Drobo iSCSI SAN arrays with Veeam’s #1 rated solution for VM backup and replication. Veeam was designed from the ground up for virtualized environments and our iSCSI SANs are so simple to set up that you can literally have them deployed and storing data in less than 34 minutes, not to mention the fact that you can instantly expand your backup environment thanks to our patented BeyondRAID technology. Combining two great products to deliver an even better solution just makes a ton of sense.… Continue Reading