Memorial Day, 2010

Today in the United States we celebrate a national holiday, Memorial Day, to honor those who have fought for our country and its Constitution. I thought to re-post one of my Memorial Day posts from last year, Hospital ship Haven in Nagasaki, Japan, 1945 about my...

Shock, vibe and awe

Shouting at a disk drive will cause it to stop. But what about the constant nagging they get in busy data centers? That’s a bigger problem. Bad, bad, bad vibrations The use of consumer-grade SATA drives in the enterprise raises the concern. A 2005 study,...

Another scale-out storage vendor bought

Harmonic is acquiring video production infrastructure and storage provider Omneon for $274 million. They’d raised about $100M since their founding. Omneon Video Networks is a specialized storage company that provides broadcast quality storage for digital media,...

StorageMojo @EMC World

Leaving Sunday for beautiful downtown Boston. Really: much nicer since they finished the Big Dig. Hoping to learn more about Atmos. Did you know it is available as an online service? And I want to talk to some of the RSA researchers working on storage, but I’m...