On August 24, Drobo announced the B1200i which is designed to support applications such as VMware and Microsoft Exchange. Yet another data centre move for Drobo as the company increasingly depends on the revenue it gets from its IT department customers. Previously I noted that Drobo “needs to communicate with IT professionals in a language [...]
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The company announced on February 8, that it follows its previously announced 8 bay arrays with a 12 bay iSCSI model. But it is also updating its 8 bay products. Drobo was initially successful with the Apple/creative audience connecting to single Macs/PCs. But Drobo soon developed larger versions connecting to servers and networked environments of [...]
Data Robotics announced on Dec 14, that the role of CEO had passed on to Tom Buiocchi. Tom takes over from Geoff Barrall who as founder of Data Robotics was responsible for developing the IP on which the DroBo products run. The announcement of a founder stepping down as CEO, is not unusual, but the [...]
Drobo Elite and Drobo S
Nov 23
Self managed RAID specialist adds new models: Drobo Elite and Drobo S. Drobo so far developed arrays of 4 and 8 bays of the which the user can insert HDDs and eject at will. The new S model tweaks the model with a 5 drive array and has eSATA added. The Elite for SMBs enhances [...]
