How bad do the ads suck?

by | Monday, November 10, 2008 | Off-Topic | 11 comments

I’ve been working with IDG to monetize StorageMojo through ad sales without much success. The latest iteration of the process you may have noticed: the ad that covers the page until you click “close.” They pay OK, but they aren’t the difference...

Flash-talking with Fusion-io

by | Friday, November 7, 2008 | Off-Topic | 7 comments

Fusion-io commissioned me to create a video with David Flynn, Fusion-io co-founder and CTO, talking about their architecture and the benefits of high bandwidth NAND flash. Even though I’ve been researching flash for a couple of years, some of David’s...

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...