Would the Drobo, “data storage robot”, be the next great product from Apple?

Let’s pretend for a moment that Apple acquired the entire Data Robotics company.  The Drobo could get a case redesign and be released as a compliment to the Time Machine, Time Capsule line perhaps as the “Apple Space Station”.  After all, that is what the device really is.  A big storage device full of empty space.  We could use the whole space lingo thing.  We could “dock” and “undock” new drives.  

The product already has Apple-like ease of use.  Just plug it in and it works.  That is Apple to the letter.

The company is small now, but lets not wait too long.  If the rumors are correct these units are flying off the shelf.  Especially now with the release of the new Firewire enabled units and software developer kits.  

I can envision us here at AIB moving our web server data, mail server data and database server databases all to an external “Space Station”.  What an administrator’s dream.  If I want to upgrade a server…prep it offline, unplug the old machine, plug in the new one, point the software to the “Space Station” data and we’re up and running.

Hope Apple is listening.  What do you think? 

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