Isilon, mostly known for their so-called “scale-out NAS” solutions, has just posted their Q2 results for 2009. Year-on-year revenue is up 3%, increasing from $28.2 million in the second quarter of 2008 to $29.0 million. Their press release suggests they might benefit from the economic slowdown:
“Isilon’s solid second quarter revenue growth and close management of [...]
Apple has just updated the specs for their Time Capsule by offering a 2 TB drive option. The other specs remain the same offering options such as:
Dual radio’s for both 2.4 and 5 GHz
Separate guest network
Wired and wireless backups for Mac computers using Time Machine
Printer sharing
Complete specs can be found on Apple’s product page. The [...]
CMS Products just announced that they are now offering a free 160 USB disk for users that buy their BounceBack Ultimate software. Sounds too good to be true? It just might be…
Chris Mellor from the Register noticed a post on Sun’s blog about Triple Parity RAID (RAID-TP) being added to ZFS. This is a rather logical extension of the current RAID-5 (single parity) and RAID-6 (dual parity, also known as RAID-DP) schemes, and the Sun engineer that wrote the blog post says the performance should be [...]
Just over a month after Apple officially announced the end of the PowerPC era, EMC has pushed out an updated version of its Retrospect backup software that adds PowerPC support. From the press release:
“Adding support for PowerPC Macs was a critical step towards providing small and mid-sized businesses the best backup and recovery product for [...]
LSI has just announced some new RAID controller cards using 6 GB/s SAS technology. The new MegaRAID 9200 series uses the LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip controller, which gives them a significant speed boost over earlier models.
Western Digital announced today that they are the world’s first manufacturer to ship 2.5 inch SATA disks with a 1 TB capacity. Their Scorpio Blue line of mobile harddisks now has two models that are unmatched in size by any of their competitors; a 1 TB and a 750 GB model. The closest any of [...]
The Register had just published a nice article by Chris Mellor, in which he argues that lots of storage startups are aiming for a market that simply doesn’t exist or is a lot smaller than they might think:
LSI has just announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire ONStor Inc; the deal is worth $25 million in cash. ONStor is mostly known for their Pantera line of SAN gateways and IP storage systems. Their other major product are the clustered NAS gateways, providing higly available frontends for large storage systems.
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