by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 27, 2008 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Fresh off the HD-DVD fiasco, Toshiba execs are stepping up to pursue another expensive flop: notebook SSDs. Memo to Toshiba: people won’t pay huge SSD premiums for nothing. And almost nothing is what flash SSDs provide today – and for the foreseeable...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Video |
A video networking company in StorageMojo? Omneon isn’t new to StorageMojo. Their price list has been on price list page since January 2007. Their booth was about 50 yards from Isilon’s and EMC’s and it was a madhouse each time I walked by. Partly...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 13, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
What’s behind the hype? Congrats to the Xiotech team on generating the most interest at SNW. Their demos were crowded with the curious. Their claims bordered on the implausible, but the credibility of the engineering team kept derision in the corners. I talked...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
It looks like Xiotech is going to cop the “Best Announcement at Spring SNW ’08” prize. See the nifty flash intro. I did speak to Ellen Lary, Engineering VP last night after going through their mobbed booth. Later today I have an appointment with...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | Architecture, Video |
On the occasion of announcing a new HPC modular array, the Engenio-based 4600, SGI commissioned me to do a StorageMojo video for them. Some interesting comments about modular vs cluster storage and CXFS. And I got to practice my radio voice. We spoke for about an hour...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 31, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise |
The 2nd installment of an occasional feature . . . A reader writes: I think your input would be valuable in helping me make a decision on storage for my company. I’ve done loads of research and I’m fairly certain I have good players narrowed down, but have...
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