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Drobo Upgrades the SOHO Data Center

Data Robotics has upgraded their RAID solution beyond the SOHO market and into the SMB market. It did this (1) by adding scalability, flexibility and multi-port iSCSI technology, (2) by supporting multi-host server configurations to an already proven reliable desktop system, and (3) by not adding unnecessary cost.

"Is there a more feared word in the English language than downsize? We all know what it means and dread the day that it is spoken. When it comes to personnel, downsize means that someone is losing his/her job and someone else will be forced to add more responsibilities to an already packed daily schedule. If you are one of the “lucky” ones who remain, say goodbye to spare time and hello to extra time doing work. You can only hope that the quality of your work does not suffer from the extra functions that you will be required to perform. We also know what it means when we talk about downsizing a product. In order to make a popular product available to a wider audience, management will always look for features that can be removed in order to lower the cost and make that product more attractive to more people. Unfortunately, removing those features often removes exactly what made the product useful in the first place. This dilemma is most obvious with regard to data center storage. "