Starboard Storage Blog

    The Information Technology Industry’s Coveted Hot Companies and Best Products Award Winners and Finalists from all over the world were honored by Network Products Guide in Las Vegas on May 7, 2013 for the 8th Annual 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Award.  These industry and peer recognitions from Network Products Guide are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry and Starboard Storage Systems was honored to be a winner in the Hot Companies Category.  Starboard was the only Hybrid Storage solution to win an award.  Starboard beat companies such as SolarWinds and Nimble storage in this category.

New Hybrid Storage Products Announced

Everybody has heard of the Cash Cow.  It is generally defined as “A business, investment, or product that provides a steady income or profit.”

As you know from the emails you received from us and the conversations we had, we recently announced a change in the business model of the company.  We have scaled back our sales and marketing resources and are evaluating some opportunities we have to deliver the value of our technology to the market through a strategic partner.

In a previous blog entitled “Storage SSD caching Explained”, http://blog.starboardstorage.com/blog/bid/233265/Storage-SSD-Caching-Explained  I concentrated on the read cache and how the algorithms that are used to cache data are critical to the overall performance of the system. 

As the VP for engineering for Starboard Storage I have the pleasure of working with customers every day and one of the questions I often get asked is “How are you incorporating customer input into your development process?”

As the Storage market embraces SSD and flash there is the constant question of how long will it take for SSDs to replace hard disk drives.  There are a lot of opinions about when folks will be all flash in the data center and most of those opinions are based on conjecture rather than fact.

Starboard Storage launched on February the 13^th, 2012 at the VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas. With Starboard now a year old I thought it would be a good time to briefly reflect on what has been accomplished in our first year and a little bit about what is to come.

The availability of solid state storage has fueled new storage platforms. One thing I am constantly asked is ‘what is the best way to implement solid state in networked storage platforms?’  Since I work for a vendor that uses solid state as cache, I clearly have a bias, but then so does every other vendor.  Someone has to be right about what will be the pre-dominate use case and here is why I believe that it will be unified hybrid storage.

After spending more than 20 years in the IT support community, customer service is my passion and my expertise.  Over the last several years, technology has changed the way we communicate, and, in return, the way we support technology must change.  In my first blog for Starboard Storage I take a look at the changing face of the It customer base and how that is impacting support practices.