Flash Performance on a Nokia N800

by | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 7 comments

I came across this simple – too simple? – flash performance benchmark on an anonymous blog named DelayToleraNt. The benchmark is a Java program that creates random data (in chunks of kilobyte) and writes the data to a file. For comparison I ran the same...

Sun counter-punches NetApp

by | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI | 8 comments

Yippie-ki-yi-yay As we say here in ranch country. Sun sent out a press release on the NetApp fracas today. I didn’t have time to parse it, so here’s the raw intelligence: Sun was legally obligated to respond in Texas to the initial suit brought on...

StorageMojo NPI

by | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI | 5 comments

New Product Introduction As part of my campaign to increase the world’s consumption of disk capacity – see yesterday’s post – I’ve developed a new capacity gobbling product. For lack of a better term I call it a video white paper. The...

The best bluesman you’ve never heard of

by | Sunday, October 28, 2007 | Off-Topic | 0 comments

Meet Danny Rhodes and the Messengers For a small town in the mountains of northern Arizona, 2 hours from Phoenix, we have a great local music scene. Ms. Mojo and I are out most weekend nights dancing to live music. Our favorite bluesman is Danny Rhodes and the...

Would you use OSS storage?

by | Friday, October 26, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech | 20 comments

Amazon and Google have demonstrated commercially – as have a number of research projects such as Microsoft’s Boxwood – it is possible to build highly available storage out of commodity servers. The odd thing is that, AFAIK, there is no commercially...