We are currently working on another new product that will be launching very soon and have re-started our product development pipeline.Here are some of the things to look forward to in 2016: We have introduced new products including the B810n, an 8-bay state of the art Network Attached Storage device that is the easiest product in that segment to set up and use.We have assembled a world class management team by promoting Drobo team members and hiring new executives from leading technology companies.We are focused again on doing more of that! Technology is complicated, but from our very early days, Drobo was able to design products in a way that kept that complexity in the background so our customers could enjoy using our products. We have distilled our mission down to what we do best, which is to Preserve Simplicity.Here are some of the highlights from the last several months: Below are some the highlights of that open letter from Drobo CEO Mihir Shah. In short, he promised that what I needed was in fact in the process of prerelease. I immediately went to LinkedIn, looked him up, and sent him an email which he quickly responded to. When I read Mihir’s post, I was encouraged I might be on the right track. I came across his heartfelt letter one evening while searching the Drobo website hoping to find out if they planned to update their products to handle the need for larger hard drives. I became aware of Drobo’s new CEO Mihir Shah by way of an open letter that he shared on the Drobo home page. In his letter he describes some of the hardships the company went through and how he had plans to turn it all around. Because of this they had a difficult time making a profit which made it impossible to stay abreast of the newest technology solutions. About a year ago, a young man named Mihir Shah put some of his own money up as well as a group of investors that successfullly invested in Aktien Apps Vergleich and bought Drobo from the mother corporation known as Connected Data. What they didn’t do so well was customer service, promotion, and getting the word out. In the early years of Drobo’s existence they were run by a team of very smart tech people who had amazing talents for building a better mouse trap, so to speak. What’s equally interesting to me is WHO they are. So I’ve described a bit about what Drobo physically is. With the new firmware update for the 5D’s, I can now handle as much as 64TB of data. Before the newest Droboįirmware update, my 2-3 year old Drobo 5D’s would only handle 16TB of data and I needed at last 20TB. That’s not easy when you have a library of almost one million images. One of Mylio’s requirements for its blazing speed is to put all photos being managed by Mylio on one hard drive. The reason I had to go through all of the above, learning about expensive RAID devices, was due to my migration from Apple’s Aperture to Mylio. Drobo let me do it with a minimum of three drives to start, then add the drives as I need more. Not only did I not need them, but I would have also been paying for the drives at today’s prices, which in a year will be much cheaper, all for space that wasn’t necessary. For the one I was considering, that meant I was buying 3-4 hard drives I didn’t yet want. Pegasus required that I buy the box with all the drives installed up front. I actually thought about moving to Pegasus but I had no desire to spend almost $6000 to move away from my Drobos. An example of this is a very well known, high quality RAID device called the Promise Pegasus. I bought a Synology device, a competitor to Drobo and was so turned off by the prehistoric looking, Windowsesque, Explorer like interface, I sent it back the next day.įor me, Beyond RAID is a must have feature for those of us who don’t want to spend money on hard drive space we might not yet need. It may sound strange to be so thrilled with the design of the Drobo Dashboard, but if you’ve seen the competition, you’ll understand why Drobo takes the lead in simplicity and elegance. That is beautiful beyond belief.Īnd speaking of pure Drobo beauty, no other device comes close to the gorgeous Drobo Dashboard which is the software you get to keep track of your Drobo devices. I can pretty much just select a drive and plug it in. They keep it simple by not requiring I know exactly what speed the drive is, what size it is, what brand, etc. But Drobo Beyond RAID does it different by way of giving me the ability to mix and match virtually any drive I have available. There’s lots of regular RAID devices on the market. QA Software Engineer, Albert Langarica, hard at work coding the great Drobo software.
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