Iomega Ponders EMC & ExcelStor Deals – EMC News Analysis – Byte and Switch

Iomega Ponders EMC & ExcelStor Deals – EMC News Analysis – Byte and Switch

EMC continues to move down market with the looming acquisition of Iomega, as I have mentioned there is no doubt that EMC is very focused on capturing data at the edge in the SOHO and enterprise market. The Iomega news comes fresh off the acquisition of Pi and the announcement of a cloud computing initiative.

Check port access from behind a firewall

While banging my head against the table from behind the most anal retentive and productivity reducing firewall known to man I came across this cool little site http://www.canyouseeme.org/.  Oddly enough this site was not blocked… Go figure.

SAM/QFS released to the Open Source Community

Possibly the best HSM product on the market released to the open source community by SUN.

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/samqfs/