Alan Brandon

I have two more articles up on Gizmag.com this week. The first is a piece about Energizer’s new tactical flashlight, and the second article covers Honeywell’s Prestige programmable thermostat.

The folks at RapidIO linked to my story on Gizmag about the EMC V-Max system.

I wrote an article about EMC’s new Symmetrix V-Max system for Gizmag. Although EMC’s V-Max is a cloud computing storage architecture I included a comparison to Yamaha’s V-Max motorcycle, which was a fun bit to write. Gizmag likes to include lots of product pictures, but the EMC V-Max is a rack-based system that looks pretty much like a refrigerator:

Not nearly as cool looking as Yamaha’s V-Max:

Click through to read the story on Gizmag.

My review of the new Pentax K-7 is up on Gizmag.com. The K-7 has a bunch of new features so the article was fun to write. Pentax has done an  impressive job on their flagship DSLR (but as a longtime Canon user I doubt I’ll switch anytime soon).

My first article is posted on Gizmag.com, the online technology magazine. You can check it out here.