Enmotus Fuzedrive has Arrived!
It’s been a long while with lots of heads down time, but we finally launched FuzeDrive™ Server for Windows and Linux in the last week or so at Enmotus. We…
Apple Fusion Drive, At Last A True Tiered Drive
We’ve been talking about the merits of SSD caching vs. tiering for a while now, but at last someone else did it right. Enter Apple’s Fusion drive announced earlier today.…
SSDs and World of Warcraft
For enthusiasts and gamers, over the past several years, combining several hard drives in a striped RAID configuration has provided reasonable benefits over and above a single hard drive. With…
SSD Tiering versus Caching: Part 2
A while back I wrote about some of the differences between caching and tiering when using solid state disk (SSD) drives in a PC or server. Having just returned from…
Snapshot and Full Image Backup for Windows Home Server
One of the short comings of the original 32 bit Windows Home Server (WHS) for me was the lack of any built in tools to backup the primary WHS boot…
Loving Personal Cloud Storage with SugarSync
I love simple-to-use technology, being a great advocate of the KISS principle. I could write a thesis on how many times I’ve seen engineers and marketers create funky steps in…
Will Traditional Disk Array Vendors Survive?
The more you look at how SAN disk array systems are evolving, the more you start to wonder how traditional disk array systems vendors can survive long term without a…
SSD Caching versus Tiering
In some recent discussions, I sensed there is some confusion around solid state device (SSD) storage used as a storage tier vs, a cache. While there are some similarities and…