Hike blogging: Deadmans Pass panorama
I've been hiking a lot the last couple of weeks, getting in shape after a long hiatus. Today I took a loop that I've never done counterclockwise and even though it shouldn't have made much difference, it was a much more enjoyable hike. The loop began with an easy walk...
DSSD’s demise
A couple of weeks ago Dell EMC announced the demise of the once promising DSSD all flash array. They are planning to incorporate DSSD technology into their other products. As StorageMojo noted 4 years ago, DSSD developed a lot of great technology. But for whatever...
Avere closes new round – with a twist
Avere announced this afternoon that they've closed a Series E round of $14 million, bringing their total funding to a cool $97 million. Existing investors Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital and Western Digital Capital...
HP offers to buy Nimble Storage
HPE's has offered to buy Nimble Storage for $1.09B. The StorageMojo take This is a good move for both companies. HPE has the enterprise footprint that Nimble was spending big to build, and Nimble has an advanced and forward looking storage platform that will bring new...
fsck interruptus and your data
Today is the last day of FAST 17. Yesterday a couple of hours were devoted to Work-in-Progress (WIP) reports. WIP reports are kept to 4 minutes and a few slides. One in particular caught my eye. In On Fault Resilience of File System Checkers, Om Rameshwar Gatla and...
StorageMojo’s Best Paper of FAST 2017
StorageMojo's crack analyst team is attending the Usenix File and Storage Technology (FAST) '17 conference. As usual, there is lots of great content. But only one paper - this year - gets the StorageMojo Best Paper nod. The conference awarded two Best Paper honors as...
It’s simple arithmetic: why Trump’s immigration stance is 100% wrong for America
An editorial comment This isn't complicated. America has 325 million people, out of the world's 7.4 billion, or about 4.4% of world's population. Despite the numerical imbalance, America also has the world's largest economy by most measures. There are two countries,...
The coming all flash array/NVMePCIe SSD dogfight
In this morning's post on ZDNet on the diseconomies of flash sharing I discuss the fact that many NVMe/PCIe SSDs are as fast as most all flash arrays (AFA). What does that mean for the all flash array market? Short answer: not good Today a Dell PowerEdge Express Flash...
Why doesn’t storage innovation come from the storage industry?
For all the time and effort poured into the storage market over the last 20 years, surprisingly little innovation has come from storage vendors themselves. Why is that? Hall of shame EMC got its opening when IBM whiffed on the storage array business. IBM had no...
Cloud integration now mandatory for storage
Spoke to the fine folks at Cloudtenna. Their thing: Cloudtenna is the first platform to generate augmented intelligence on top of your existing file repositories. The Direct Content Intelligence (DirectCI) agent uses deep machine learning to identify the files most...
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