* Posts by bobtenda

3 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2009

Savvis picks Compellent for public cloud service

bobtenda

I feel another sidekick coming on

Compellent certainly is cheap. It's inexpensive too. Good luck Savvis. I hope you have your backups down pat...

Hitachi Data Systems fingered in Sidekick disaster

bobtenda

Maybe EMC

I know the EMC Clariion can lose all its data pretty easily but I'm not aware of how HDS can pull that off...

EMC puts future on FAST forward

bobtenda

haphazard data placement

"Sun and NetApp already have a variation of this functionality with Amber Road and PAM"

no they don't. They just use "SSD" as level 2 cache. With Amber Road their "write acceleration" cache (or whatever they call it) simply "accelerates" the writes to that of SATA drives. Impressive.