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I hadn’t heard of this before a few days ago, when I was fact checking some of the info on Fujifilm’s video interview around its breakthrough with IBM in tape capacity.  I had thought that the IBM-Fujifilm tape capacity demonstration showed the application of PMR head technology to a new tape coating that used BaFe particles to achieve the great density improvement. 

I was hanging out in San Francisco airport yesterday on a flight delay and went into one of the magazine stores to check out the latest monthlies.  A bunch of them had the same full page ad from Oracle comparing a Sun server hosted Oracle DB with apps to an anonymous IBM “server” hosted Oracle DB with apps

Hopefully, some of the Xiotech folks have their ears on.  In response to my previous post questioning the marketecture around Flash SSD, one reader (Pq65) said that my commentary underscored Xiotech’s limitations in the sense that they (1) are closely tied to Seagate, which doesn’t have a Flash story yet, and (2) were not jumping on

Storage Decisions in Chicago holds a special place in my heart.  I stopped doing SD events for several years but ramped up again in 2008 for reasons I can’t really recall.  Back in the late 90s, it was a world class show with huge attendance.  Things have scaled back a bit in the current economy, but

I was perturbed when I learned that a video of the first truly fact-based analysis of tape backup versus de-dupe VTL-to-VTL replication, as presented by AT&T at the FujiFilm Global IT Executive Summit in Austin, TX, had been taken down by FujiFilm at the request of AT&T.  While no one from AT&T will say, I suspect that

I know I have been remiss in posting here.  Part of it was travel, part concern about the oil poised to roll up on my beach here in Florida.  I see many parallels between this disaster and what is happening in storage today, which I have addressed in my next column at Mainframe Executive.  I

Last month, I recorded a series of videos for CA regarding mainframe tape, virtual tape, disaster recovery, and the mainframe experience that may be of interest to some readers here.  Curiously, I was on the web in two places at the same time yesterday — doing the web cast with the Active Archive Alliance and

I am becoming a fan of the Active Archive Alliance.  I did a webcast with Molly Rector at Spectra Logic yesterday that will soon be available for replay for anyone who couldn’t make it. Will post a link once it is available. Plus, I started writing a story arc at ESJ.com – first part published yesterday, next

Last week, ESJ.com published a video clip taken from an interview I did with Mark Urdahl of Virtual Instruments regarding the company’s efforts to improve IO efficiency both in FC fabrics and in x86 hypervisor environments.  Good stuff here.  Watch the entire interview at the C-4 Project when you get a chance, not just because it

Nashville is also in our thoughts today.  The city looks like a river and the stadium is the world’s biggest municipal swimming hole. I hope all of the larger firms in the area weren’t subscribed to the same DR hot site.  And I will be interested in hearing everyones disaster recovery stories after the water recedes