Chris Mellor Storage editor - The Register - ComputerWeekly.com Chris Mellor is storage editor at The Register. Chris Mellor’s Most Recent Content ComputerWeekly.com Storage arrays face two-pronged flash/cloud attack 04 Sep 2012 ComputerWeekly.com How a flash array could have limited RBS damage 29 Jun 2012 ComputerWeekly.com Has EMC missed out on the hybrid flash array? 01 Jun 2012 ComputerWeekly.com Bigger drives mean the RAID rebuild must become a thing of the past 27 Apr 2012 ComputerWeekly.com The storage startups’ war of the flea against big vendors 04 Apr 2012 ComputerWeekly.com The object storage system elephant in the room: It can't go on tape 12 Mar 2012 ComputerWeekly.com How big storage vendors can win the server-side flash wars 14 Feb 2012 ComputerWeekly.com Recession could spell the triumph of the cloud service provider 15 Dec 2011 ComputerWeekly.com TLC flash could relegate spinning disk to the background 14 Nov 2011 ComputerWeekly.com IBM’s racetrack memory: 1,250x increase in storage density promised 30 Sep 2011 ComputerWeekly.com Direct-attached storage vs SAN: Clustered DAS model gaining favour in virtualised, solid-state world 07 Sep 2011 ComputerWeekly.com Is hard disk drive areal density fatally limited? 28 Jul 2011 ComputerWeekly.com Why should storage arrays manage app server flash cache? 30 Jun 2011 ComputerWeekly.com Disk archive vs tape archive: The war of words and a trick missed 25 May 2011 ComputerWeekly.com Nexsan, Pillar Data and Xiotech: Storage array vendor misfits or successful niche players? 21 Apr 2011 ComputerWeekly.com SSD write endurance: Will HP's memristor be the successor to flash? 28 Mar 2011 ComputerWeekly.com Flash storage is magic, but where should you wave the wand? 16 Feb 2011 ComputerWeekly.com EMC VNX launch represents a move toward unified branding as well as unified storage 26 Jan 2011 ComputerWeekly.com VCE Vblocks and NetApp FlexPods must integrate further to survive 02 Dec 2010 ComputerWeekly.com Will 2.5-inch drives supplant 3.5-inch drives in storage arrays? 17 Oct 2010 ComputerWeekly.com For storage jobs you'll need more than storage skills 23 Sep 2010 ComputerWeekly.com The future of HDD technology will rest on cooperation among the five HDD manufacturers 30 Aug 2010 ComputerWeekly.com How the Vblock message could rebound on EMC 26 Jul 2010 ComputerWeekly.com Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet are in balance for Brocade 21 Jun 2010 ComputerWeekly.com Is EMC's VMware virtualization juggernaut unstoppable? 19 May 2010 ComputerWeekly.com Storage array supplier shakeout could be sparked by virtualisation and the cloud 24 Mar 2010 ComputerWeekly.com The best cloud storage pioneers depended on trust 22 Feb 2010 ComputerWeekly.com Will RainStor data deduplication change the database game? 20 Jan 2010 ComputerWeekly.com Server virtualisation and data growth changing storage-area network, network-attached storage 16 Dec 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Virtual Computing Environment, other alliances could mean data storage industry conflict 18 Nov 2009 ComputerWeekly.com What you should know about flash memory in storage 27 Oct 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Cloud storage poses awkward questions for file storage 09 Sep 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Solid-state drives, disk poised to change data storage market 24 Aug 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Solid-state drives, 2.5-inch drives boost IOPS without wasting capacity 16 Jul 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Will Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) bring a fabric switch product shakedown? 30 Jun 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Tape suppliers struggle with disk for recession revenue 18 May 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Inside the minds of storage CEOs 06 Apr 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Virtualisation, SSD, dedupe surviving recession 11 Mar 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Solid-state cache set to speed up server data access 05 Feb 2009 MicroscopeUK Comment: Profit from helping buyers cut costs 13 Jan 2009 ComputerWeekly.com Cisco, Brocade Fibre Channel strategies differ 09 Jan 2009 ComputerWeekly.com The slow, gradual death of tape 10 Dec 2008 ComputerWeekly.com Why are EMC, HP and IBM so tentative about clustered NAS filers? 24 Nov 2008 ComputerWeekly.com Sun places big bet on open storage arrays 12 Nov 2008 ComputerWeekly.com OEM relationship between Dell and EMC coming to an end 24 Oct 2008 ComputerWeekly.com For storage vendors and storage users, recession = retrenchment 22 Oct 2008 ComputerWeekly.com Evaluating Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and Ethernet protocols for network virtualisation 10 Oct 2008 ComputerWeekly.com Storage array makers not following EMC's lead on flash solid state drives 25 Sep 2008 ComputerWeekly.com SSDs no silver bullet for server hard drive I/O problems 10 Sep 2008 ComputerWeekly.com Despite what you've heard, flash notebook era hasn't begun yet 27 Aug 2008 ComputerWeekly.com Storage vendors' earnings show array makers healthiest 13 Aug 2008 ComputerWeekly.com Quantum's Riverbed suit dismissed 25 Feb 2008 ComputerWeekly.com Plasmon tries to raise fresh cash 14 Feb 2008 MicroscopeUK Flash solid state disks open opportunity for fast margins 04 Feb 2008