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Registerized

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:41:00 +0000

As of today I'm writing for The Register as a storage and hardware editor. The intention is that the Blocks and Files content will be absorbed into The Register's content. No more will you be able to read endless lists of storage suppliers' press releases or quarterly results summaries. The invited opinion pieces will be no more. But the news stories and analysis and irreverence - without typos (!) - will continue albeit Registerized. Eg:

The Last Post

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:31:00 +0000

This is my last Blocks and Files post. I'm off to online pastures new in an adjacent website property starting Monday.

Big IBM storage announcement next month

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:29:00 +0000

A little bird, a quite well-informed bird, tells me that IBM has a storage product announcement day coming up on September the 8th. There could be quite a lot for IBM to say.

The China Syndrome

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:23:00 +0000

Chinese manufacturers of the new Chinese high-def optical disk format, CBHD, are having no luck hawking it around Holywood.

Overland restructures, replaces VP W-W Sales

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:07:00 +0000

Overland Storage has replaced its VP for world-wide sales, fired 53 staff and cut spending across the board as it rationalizes its operations following the SnapServer acquisition.

It's blindingly obvious

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:11:00 +0000

Enterprises have known this inconvenient truth for years and years: if an IT resource is critical then it needs an offsite disaster recovery facility. The would-be cloud storage behemoths thought they didn't need offsite DR. We've got news for them - they do.

EMC blogger tears into HP and NetApp

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:38:00 +0000

EMC has set out to rubbish its competition on storage capacity efficiency and claimed its new CX4 array is much more efficient than HP and NetApp arrays.

IBM Quicksilver SSD project exceeds a million IOPS

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:52:00 +0000

IBM has demo'd a flash solid state drive setup more than twice as fast as the quickest SPC-rated RamSan-400 SSD from Texas Memory Systems.

Seagate's blooming Marvell of an SSD controller

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:36:00 +0000

Exciting news: Marvell's CEO did not say that an expanded relationship with Seagate was for Marvell's SSD controller technology - which we take to mean it is.

Dell profits sink 17% as revenues rise

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:20:00 +0000

Dell posted a surprise 17 per cent drop in profits for its fiscal second quarter, even though its revenues handily beat Wall Street estimates.