EMC Makes Nice

Gosh, I hope they didn’t sprain anything in the process . . . I just got a nice note from an EMC representative. Hello Robin, We’ve been regular readers of StorageMojo for quite a while and welcome the efforts of you and others in the blogosphere to...

EMC Threatens StorageMojo

The Empire strikes back An EMC lawyer sent me the following email last week: On Mar 14, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Clark_William@emc.com wrote: Robin Harris: Your Website StorageMojo.com posts a price list of EMC Corporation. Having worked in the industry for over 20 years in...

Creating an Historical Archive

Culinary history: old wedding cake in the freezer? An long time friend of mine is working with the Culinary Historians of New York on a project to gather and preserve the records of a Depression-era WPA project. According to the CHNY: The mission of “America...

Objects To Desire

The Object of My Affection Why do we manage blocks? That construct is getting old. You might say we manage blocks because disks have blocks and we build storage out of disks. But what if disks didn’t have blocks? No more block management. We’d simply...