Enter Exagrid

With all the kerfluffle, one might think that Data Domain is the only dedup appliance company out there. They aren’t. The big guys are admitting they don’t have a product Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid, weighed in with some pertinent comments today: What...

EMC plays catchup with NetApp

EMC plays catchup Long known for picking up useful assets at fire sale prices EMC is making a $2B move to pick up Data Domain at a premium price. That’s less than 2 weeks after NetApp put DD in play with a friendly $1.5B cash + stock offer. With...

Dear Uncle StorageMojo: CSI edition

Continuing an occasional feature This just came over the transom. Vendors, take your best shot at configuring a good solution. Non-vendors are welcome too. I’ll email him a customized StorageMojo take after the bulk of the comments come in. Welcome to the real...

Garth Gibson on supercomputer storage

Garth Gibson, is one of the authors of the original RAID paper (pdf), CMU professor, founder of the Parallel Data Lab, founder and head of the Petascale Data Storage Institute and founder and CTO of Panasas, a maker of parallel clustered NAS systems. I caught up with...