StorageMojo’s Las Vegas weekend

I’m off to America’s Sin City for a weekend of good clean storage fun. I’m attending Tom Coughlin’s Storage Visions conference. Then I’m sticking around on Monday to take in a few hours of CES, a show I’ve never attended. There are...

The StorageMojo 2007 prediction scorecard

Can’t win ’em all – darn it! A year ago I offered predictions for 2007 (see 2007 in review) and it was with deep foreboding that I went back to look at them. Cynic or optimist? Here’s the list and my take on each prediction. Cloud computing?...

Fusion io does the hard part

Fast, high-capacity flash drive Fusion-io’s impressive demo at DEMOfall07 piqued my interest (see Fusion io – great demo. Now comes the hard part.) and skepticism. They’ve announced some pricing and refined the specs. The ioDrive The ioDrive is a...

Sun/NetApp suit update

Some Christmas cheer Some, not a lot. According to Sun, there have been some significant changes in the mutual lawsuits: In November, the two parties agreed to litigate their mutual lawsuits in northern California instead of east Texas. They are litigating both the...

FastMail fights data corruption

Email is the largest personal database for most people. Easy to search, my gigabyte of email contains contacts, documents, notes and the record of many relationships. I back it up both locally and remotely. But how do I know it isn’t corrupted? FastMail’s...