Shock, vibe and awe

by | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech | 8 comments

Shouting at a disk drive will cause it to stop. But what about the constant nagging they get in busy data centers? That’s a bigger problem. Bad, bad, bad vibrations The use of consumer-grade SATA drives in the enterprise raises the concern. A 2005 study,...

Another scale-out storage vendor bought

by | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Clusters, Video | 4 comments

Harmonic is acquiring video production infrastructure and storage provider Omneon for $274 million. They’d raised about $100M since their founding. Omneon Video Networks is a specialized storage company that provides broadcast quality storage for digital media,...

StorageMojo @EMC World

by | Wednesday, May 5, 2010 | Enterprise, Marketing | 1 comment

Leaving Sunday for beautiful downtown Boston. Really: much nicer since they finished the Big Dig. Hoping to learn more about Atmos. Did you know it is available as an online service? And I want to talk to some of the RSA researchers working on storage, but I’m...

Cisco’s UCS limited scale

by | Friday, April 30, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise | 23 comments

Should a Unified Computing System be able to scale to meet growing application needs? Of course, but the network must scale with it. The problem: Cisco’s enterprise architecture doesn’t scale. And that isn’t only the StorageMojo take. Gartner VP Joe...