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Since we released our 4010 model last week at a list price of $250K for 144TB ($1.92/GB) of storage including dedupe, replication, advanced data protection, retention policies/WORM, and thin provisioning, I've been asked how we are able to provide our value tier storage at such a screaming deal to enterprise customers. Today I'll outline five ways we drive down storage costs and compare the relative cost savings to primary storage costs.
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Yesterday was a holiday for some folks. Many people weren't aware that Monday was Patriot's Day which also coincides with the running of the Boston Marathon. So if you are with a company headquartered or have a remote office in New England, you more than likely had yesterday as a day off!
The Boston Marathon had me thinking about the grueling task of running mile after mile, hour after hour. It's definitely not a race where you lace up, do 30...
I'm just back from SNW in Orlando where storage people get together a couple of times per year to compare industry news and trends. This year I was struck by a big theme that reinforces what we are hearing from analysts and customers. A massive shift is occurring in storage - a move to what some are calling "Value Tier Storage." Basically there are two types of companies: those who are on the value bus and those that aren't.
Here's the juice. ...
Last week one of my favorite technology journalists, David Pogue at the New York Times, wrote about the problem of data rot. (I wish my web videos were as funny as his.) He spoke with Dag Spicer of the Computer History Museum about the challenges they face trying to restore data from old media.
I found it interesting, but not surprising, that they have better luck reading very old media versus newer failing media. While this might seem coun...
