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Robin Harris

Robin Harris

Harris has been messing with computers for over 30 years and selling and marketing data storage for over 20 in companies large and small. He introduced a couple of multi-billion dollar storage products (DLT, the first Fibre Channel array) to market, as well as a many smaller ones. Earlier he spent 10 years marketing servers and networks. After leaving corporate life he founded TechnoQWAN, a consulting and analyst firm. He also developed StorageMojo into one of the top storage industry blogs.

Robin writes, consults, coaches and lives among the mountains of northern Arizona.

About Storage Bits

Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.

  • Lazy emailers win: you're most efficient!

    By Robin Harris | February 10, 2012, 7:09am PST

    Carefully organized email boxes, with dozens of folders named and tagged, are a waste of time. Here’s why, according to researchers from IBM and Microsoft.

  • Microsoft starts protecting your data

    By Robin Harris | February 8, 2012, 7:23am PST

    Apple’s warming trend in the enterprise is about to get squashed: Microsoft’s new ReFS file system - due in Windows 8 Server - will be the first major file system to fix...

  • Why is Intel propping up Apple's competition?

    By Robin Harris | January 23, 2012, 12:50pm PST

    Apple, like most PC makers, buys its PC processors from Intel. So why is Intel funding competitors to one of its largest customers? Apple should ask for $400 million off its next Intel CPU order.

  • The great 2012 disk shortage

    By Robin Harris | January 13, 2012, 9:55am PST

    A Hitachi VP claims disk supplies won’t be back to normal until the end of this year. Should we care?

  • Can Wintel win the Ultrabook market?

    By Robin Harris | January 9, 2012, 8:58am PST

    Battered by the iPad and the MacBook Air, PC makers and Intel are ganging up on Apple with Ultrabooks. Will this blunt Apple’s attack, or be another profitless bit of me-too-ism by the 20th...

  • 5 trends to watch in 2012

    By Robin Harris | December 29, 2011, 8:34am PST

    Who has time to look back? What’s past is prologue: here are the business/technology fault lines I’ll be watching in 2012.

  • Why drive vendors are cutting their warranties

    By Robin Harris | December 22, 2011, 6:24am PST

    Disk drive vendors Seagate and WD have cut their warranties by up to 80%. Why now?

  • Why Apple is buying Anobit

    By Robin Harris | December 14, 2011, 5:56am PST

    Calcalist says that Apple is making its largest hardware acquisition ever: Israeli firm Anobit. Who are they and what would they do for Apple? I’ve spoken to Anobit’s CTO, Avraham...

  • Storage gifts for Christmas 2011

    By Robin Harris | December 13, 2011, 5:16am PST

    Shopping for the geek who has everything? More storage is always welcome. While disk drives are pricey this year due to the Thai floods, other storage products are in plentiful supply with lower...

  • Is the Mac Pro dead?

    By Robin Harris | November 21, 2011, 8:11am PST

    Apple’s iconic tower system, the Mac Pro, is the slowest selling Mac. With the advent of ultrafast thunderbolt I/O on everything from the MacBook Air to quad core iMacs, do users need the...

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