http://storagemojo.com Data storage info & analysis Tue, 06 May 2008 19:19:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Always learning This week's learning: a hacked web site. There's been a lot of that going around. Writing has taken a back seat to fixing the problem. It took a while to grok how deeply StorageMojo had been hacked. First I got a note from my hosting company - something about a ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/05/06/storagemojo-hacked/ Spent some time with Nick Pearce, a co-founder of Object Matrix, a UK-based software startup supporting commodity-based archiving. Their MatrixStore product clusters off-the-shelf servers and storage to create a secure disk based archive. MatrixStore runs out of the box on Mac OS and will work with most Linux supported tin. Commodity ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/05/02/nab-shorts-matrixstore/ What, if any, is the value of multi-year storage uptime? Xiotech and Atrato promise 5 and 3 year uninterrupted service on their new arrays. Now it is time to ask, as some commenters have, so what? After all, enterprise data centers are already well-equipped to deal with disk failures. RAID keeps the ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/05/01/the-value-of-guaranteed-uptime/ I got quoted in Byte & Switch today about Hitachi Global Storage Technology and the new CIO. HGST has been a money pit for Hitachi since they bought the IBM disk operation. They question is: are they ready to do something about it? The answer is yes. An informant assures me that ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/29/hgst-getting-ready-to-rumble/ Fresh off the HD-DVD fiasco, Toshiba execs are stepping up to pursue another expensive flop: notebook SSDs. Memo to Toshiba: people won't pay huge SSD premiums for nothing. And almost nothing is what flash SSDs provide today - and for the foreseeable future. Please sir, may I have another! Given the multi-billion ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/27/notebook-flash-ssd-market-fantasy-or-mirage/ A video networking company in StorageMojo? Omneon isn't new to StorageMojo. Their price list has been on price list page since January 2007. Their booth was about 50 yards from Isilon's and EMC's and it was a madhouse each time I walked by. Partly that was because they were holding all their ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/24/nab-shorts-omneon-video-networks/ Isilon at NAB Stopped by the Isilon booth a couple of times. Traffic seemed steady. Isilon held their meetings away from the booth, so it didn't have the level of activity of, say, Omneon's booth. NAB is their biggest show of the year and the market where they have the biggest footprint. ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/23/nab-shorts-isilon/ NAB frame by frame SNW and NAB did not overlap this year, so I spent 3 days each at both. The 2 events are very different: storage is the topic at one and merely central to what everyone is doing at the other. I enjoy both. Rather than tackle NAB in one ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/23/snw-nab-iops-vs-bandwidth/ After 8 years of hard slogging the folks at InPhase are ready to ship the world's first holographic storage system. As StorageMojo noted 2 years ago: InPhase is claiming they will ship drives with removable holographic disks with 300GB capacity and 20Mbps transfer rate later this year. I love holographic technology and wish ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/20/holographic-storage-debuts-next-month/ NAB comes closer to the future of storage than any other show I've seen. Both in the storage demand generated by digitizing existing content and in the bulk storage supply needed to house it, NAB points to the future of massive digital storage. If you or your company are there, send ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/14/storagemojo-off-to-nab/ What's behind the hype? Congrats to the Xiotech team on generating the most interest at SNW. Their demos were crowded with the curious. Their claims bordered on the implausible, but the credibility of the engineering team kept derision in the corners. I talked to Ellen Lary, engineering VP, and Steve Sicola, CTO, ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/13/xiotechs-ise-beast-or-gamine/ It looks like Xiotech is going to cop the "Best Announcement at Spring SNW '08" prize. See the nifty flash intro. I did speak to Ellen Lary, Engineering VP last night after going through their mobbed booth. Later today I have an appointment with Steve Sicola, Xiotech's CTO. I'll ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/09/snw-update-xiotechs-ise-and-the-dilithium-solution/ On the occasion of announcing a new HPC modular array, the Engenio-based 4600, SGI commissioned me to do a StorageMojo video for them. Some interesting comments about modular vs cluster storage and CXFS. And I got to practice my radio voice. We spoke for about an hour and I boiled down ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/09/storagevideomojo/ Already? Didn't we just have one of those? Leaving sunny Arizona for sunny Florida today. Say hi if you see me. NAB next week I'm driving to Las Vegas next week to see what's cool in media storage. And EMC World next month! Never been to one before. Hope to hear all about Maui, the ... http://storagemojo.com/2008/04/07/storagemojo-storage-networking-world-again/