This week, Drobo took the cover off of a product that’s been in development for quite some time: The Drobo Mini.  As is the case with all Drobos, the Mini features the company’s proprietary BeyondRAID technology, but it also does something more.  It allows an administrator to cram up to four 2.5” SATA disks into ...

Solid state storage gets a lot of attention these days, but when looking at the market, there are a lot of hybrid systems out there for consideration.  By its very nature, “hybrid” storage implies that there is both solid state and rotational storage in the box.  In these systems, the solid state storage is used ...

At TechEd in Orlando, I had the opportunity to meet with Kemp Technologies.  You may not have heard of the company, but they are a small maker of SMB and midmarket-focused load balancing devices.  During our conversation, inevitable comparisons to F5, a well-known provider of similar devices, arose, but Peter Melerud, EVP for Product Management ...

Server vendors have been bringing their storage game to the server market for quite a while, adding servers with ever-more storage options in an effort to tailor solutions to customers needs.  However, when one considers “server-based storage,” it’s generally assumed that such storage is of the direct-attached variety.  Even in this day and age of ...