by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 | Disk |
I got quoted in Byte & Switch today about Hitachi Global Storage Technology and the new CIO. HGST has been a money pit for Hitachi since they bought the IBM disk operation. They question is: are they ready to do something about it? The answer is yes. An informant...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 20, 2008 | Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
After 8 years of hard slogging the folks at InPhase are ready to ship the world’s first holographic storage system. As StorageMojo noted 2 years ago: InPhase is claiming they will ship drives with removable holographic disks with 300GB capacity and 20Mbps...
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 | Friday, March 28, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Future Tech |
6 weeks ago StorageMojo covered the leaving-stealth-mode non-announce of Atrato’s new storage box. I spoke to Dan McCormick, Atrato’s co-founder and CEO a few days ago for an update. They’ll have more details at SNW. But here’s what I found...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 14, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Disk |
It didn’t win Best Paper honors at FAST 08 – IIRC it was An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (the link is to the StorageMojo review of that excellent paper last month) but I really like the thinking behind Pergamum: Replacing Tape with...
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