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Barrie Sosinsky

Barrie Sosinsky is a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro. He is an industry analyst with the Sosinsky Group, which specializes in application-development and testing services, database design, network system design, and IT industry analysis.
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bCentral and the .NET Experience

By Carol Tanielu, 10/31/2001

Take a trip through Microsoft's portal for small-business services to sample the .NET experience.

Win2K Server Appliances

By Barrie Sosinsky, 10/18/2001

Several vendors have released Web or Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances based on Win2K.

Network Appliances

By Barrie Sosinsky, 10/18/2001

Vendors offer boxes optimized for Web serving, file serving, and other targeted tasks.

Cereva Changes Its Board

By Barrie Sosinsky, 09/10/2001

The Boston Globe reported that startup Cereva Networks has made some major changes.

NORTHERN Releases Quota Server 5.3

By Barrie Sosinsky, 09/10/2001

NORTHERN announced Quota Server 5.3, the latest version of its enterprise storage management solution.

MaxOptix Unveils New Low-Cost AIT Autoloaders

By Barrie Sosinsky, 09/10/2001

MaxOptix unveiled the first terabyte-capacity AIT-1 autoloader, priced at less than $5000.

VERITAS Software and EMC Report Lowered Earnings, Diminished Expectations

By Barrie Sosinsky, 08/13/2001

Two prominent companies in the storage industry reported their second-quarter 2001 earnings. Read Barry Sosinsky's summary of their reports.

The Holy Grail of Storage

By Barrie Sosinsky, 08/06/2001

Storage virtualization is important to the storage industry. Being able to pool disks and meter out storage capacity as volumes demand lets administrators greatly increase the ...

SOS Storage Array Lawsuit Goes to Trial

By Barrie Sosinsky, 07/29/2001

The Storage Computer Corporation (SOS) is suing Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) for violating technology-related patents that the storage industry uses for RAID arrays. Read why SOS ...

LiveVault's Online Backup Service

By Barrie Sosinsky, 07/23/2001

Most data centers take backup seriously, using costly technology. But many small businesses don't have the resources for quality backups. Read about a software package that lets ...

Storage in the Year 2000, Part 2

By Barrie Sosinsky, 07/16/2001

The year 2000 was extraordinary for storage companies. Read the conclusion of Barrie Sosinsky's summary of how the overall RAID-based disk market grew, and how storage is expected ...

Storage in the Year 2000, Part 1

By Barrie Sosinsky, 07/09/2001

The year 2000 was extraordinary for storage companies. Read Barrie Sosinsky's summary of how the overall RAID-based disk market grew, and how storage is expected to grow in 2001 ...

InfiniBand and Storage

By Barrie Sosinsky, 07/02/2001

Many developers think the new server bus standard called InfiniBand will replace PCI bus. Learn what Barrie Sosinsky found out about this new technology at the second InfiniBand ...

What Windows XP Brings to Storage

By Barrie Sosinsky, 06/25/2001

The upcoming Windows XP OS contains several new storage-related features that many users will find valuable. Read Barrie Sosinsky's review of how these new features can impact ...

SNIA Launches Interoperability Initiatives

By Barrie Sosinsky, 06/20/2001

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is developing projects to help storage vendors' products interoperate. Learn about SNIA's Supported Solutions Forum, which ...

Tandberg Data Makes Some Noise

By Barrie Sosinsky, 06/11/2001

Tandberg Data is developing a new tape head and tape format technology based on High Speed Optical Servo. If the company delivers on this technology as intended, it will have ...

Microsoft's Storage Appliances

By Barrie Sosinsky, 06/04/2001

Microsoft offers a complete embedded Win2K OS that developers can use for a variety of applications, and the company has targeted Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Web servers ...

Request for Reader Feedback, and Storage Service Providers

By Barrie Sosinsky, 05/21/2001

Barrie Sosinsky asks for feedback from Storage UPDATE readers and gives a brief overview of the utility and service models that Storage Service Providers (SSPs) currently use.

DVD Standards Proliferate

By Barrie Sosinsky, 05/14/2001

DVD technology has sold fast; at the same time, DVD formats have proliferated. Some agreed-upon standards and interoperable formats will benefit market and customers alike.

Storage UPDATE Survey Results, Part 3

By Barrie Sosinsky, 05/07/2001

Barrie Sosinsky offers a third set of results from the recent Storage UPDATE survey, including the figures for Network Attached Storage (NAS) deployments, Storage-over-IP (SoIP), ...



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