Massive price list update

I’ve updated the price lists for these companies. ADIC Avamar Brocade Documentum EMC EqualLogic Falconstor Finisar Hitachi HP IBM Isilon Lefthand McData NetApp Nexsan Omneon Oracle Pillar Riverbed RSA Sun Texas Memory Systems VMware Many are called but few(er)...

World’s most beautiful supercomputer

Granted, Thinking Machines built a very striking machine of very limited utility. But leave it to the sophisticated Spanish in the cultural powerhouse of Barcelona to create a beautiful supercomputer – in a Modernist, Glass House esthetic – and meld it...

The 1 Terabyte CD

Ever since the HAL 9000 was decommissioned by pulling out its clear plastic storage modules in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey every storage geek has been jonesing for 3D storage. Holographic, multi-layer, whatever. I want capacity and I want it now!...

The coming boom in SSD’s

Solid state disks have been around for decades and failed to make the IT mainstream. Why is that about to change? I did a stint of SSD marketing at DEC in the early 90’s. Then, as now, SSDs offered low I/O latency and high IOPS capacity at an astronomical $/GB....