StorageMojo at FAST 2008

Join me in San Jose, CA, February 26–29, 2008, for the latest in File And Storage Technologies. Top researchers from academe and industry – NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, Data Domain, HP, Panasas, Yahoo, Seagate and more – will present their latest research....

Set phasers to “change”

Flash may be getting all the attention, but the boffins are working hard to ensure we have options to flash. We need those options because flash has some serious limitations, like random write performance and density, that we may not be able to overcome. On the other...

Flash performance update

Update on mobile flash performance Mikko Pitkanen over at the mobile development blog Delay ToleraNt posted some more tests on Nokia N800’s flash performance. He’s a doctoral candidate at the Helsinki Institute of Physics at CERN in Switzerland with a...

What was Ray Ozzie thinking?

I wrote a first pass on the Microsoft/Yahoo for ZDnet yesterday morning. Short version: are they nuts? The silliest comment Ray Ozzie was quoted saying: Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has...