HP buys IBRIX

Another scrappy startup bites the dust HP announced this morning that it is buying IBRIX, one of the up and comers for scale-out cluster file storage. They expect to close the transaction in 30 days. The IBRIX secret sauce IBRIX was founded in 2000 with IP from Yale...

Quantum next up in de-dup battle?

Since the DoJ gave EMC an OK on the Data Domain acquisition, what’s next for NetApp? How about Quantum? Through the Quantum->ADIC->Rocksoft dedup patents – cross-licensed to DD in return for 390,000 DDUP shares – Quantum owns core deduplication...

Update on advertising

Close observers might have noticed that StorageMojo hasn’t had an ads for a month or so. I hope that is about to change. For readers who care about such things you can now read the StorageMojo advertising policy and rate card by clicking on Advertising or on the...

Cold storage

As the economics of data storage push more and more data onto disks, the energy efficiency of data storage is ever more critical. Storage is anti-entropic, so keeping bits organized requires energy. How can we minimize that energy input? Data cooling is the major...