Blu-ray is dead. Now what?

by | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | Off-Topic | 12 comments

The window for Blu-ray success is rapidly closing (see Blu-ray is dead. Heckuva job, Sony!). Which means that 50 GB writable disks will never cost $0.35 a piece. What is a storage hungry consumer to do? Massive removable/transportable storage Together cheap CD/DVD...

Cool kit at SNW

by | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | Off-Topic | 1 comment

Every silver lining has a cloud As Storage Networking World’s go this was quiet. It is always good to get together with industry colleagues. And to be able to look executives in the eye when I asked them hard questions. Everybody is antsy about the economy. With...

StorageMojo @ SNW this week

by | Monday, October 13, 2008 | Off-Topic | 1 comment

StorageMojo has decamped to Dallas for Storage Networking World this week. I’ll be leaving Wednesday afternoon. I still look like my picture to your right. If you see me feel free to say hello. Always interested in hearing user stories about products and...

Building a 1.8 exabyte data center

by | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | Architecture, Disk | 28 comments

StorageMojo gets questions from baffled civilians out in prospect-land. This one seems worthy of a thorough airing. The writer is a student and a storage newbie, but she has the kind of question that more folks are asking. Here’s her note, edited for clarity: I...