3 posts and columns on storage area network

Flash Storage Startup Fusion-io Speeds Up Trading At Credit Suisse

in Enterprise on December 7, 2010 at 7:59 am PT

Keep a close eye on Fusion-io. Its flash-memory based storage technology is quietly winning lots of business in data centers around the world. I say quietly, because very often the companies using it don’t like to broadcast that fact to the world. One who is willing is Credit Suisse, though it won’t say much.

Danger Will Robinson! Do Not Approach the Sidekick!

in News on October 12, 2009 at 4:23 pm PT

A quick update on the Microsoft/Danger Sidekick fiasco. T-Mobile has pulled its Sidekick handsets off the market following a back-end server failure that resulted in many users losing their personal data. Surf over to the carrier’s Web site and you’ll find that it now lists the entire Sidekick line of devices as “temporarily out of stock.” Not that you’d want one anyway.
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Microsoft/Danger. Enough Said.

in News on October 12, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

In the canon of Microsoft cock-ups, this may be the most humiliating. A server failure at the company’s Danger subsidiary has wiped out the personal data of a large number of T-Mobile Sidekick users and despite its best efforts Microsoft cannot seem to get it back.
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