Let’s get perpendicular!

Not as sexy as getting horizontal, but a lot more space effective. In case we were wondering if disk drives were going to continue their phenomenal capacity growth for the next few years, now we know. But I’m not really writing about that, which will be old news...

ILM is Bunk

The forces of flaky marketing have been pushing mightily on the concept of Information Lifecycle Management. With much heavy lifting the marketing mavens have gotten ILM fairly high on the Hype Cycle. I keep wondering when someone will wake up to the simple fact that...

Storage & Cosmology

The storage Big Bang began with the first electronic digital computers which used modifiable electronic storage, such as mercury delay tubes, CRT storage, magneto-restrictive delay lines or such. Unlike earlier storage — plugboards and punchcards and papertape...