by Robin Harris | Friday, July 17, 2009 | Clusters, Marketing |
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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 16, 2009 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing |
Microsoft has VMware in its sights and there will be blood. Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, gave what reads like a real barn-burner speech at the MS partner’s conference. He covered a lot of ground, but this stark warning to EMC/VMware was the toughest. He...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 6, 2009 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 29, 2009 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
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...
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