Sweetest comment ever. . .

Sometimes it seems that the online publishing world is a rage of elbows and snark. But it isn’t. Wednesday I published a piece on ZDNet about Jefferson Davis – June 3 is his birthday – and Edward Snowden, musing on how both were treated. Davis, of...

“The more fundamental requirement”

I long ago concluded that storage is the most difficult problem in information technology because entropy is always working to destroy our data. But then I came across this from a speech given by British mathematician, computer theorist and pioneer and Bletchley Park...

Are file and object stores in the same segment?

IDC has recently been promoting the idea of file and object based storage as a segment. While market segmentation is more art than science, putting file and object based storage in the same segment obscures the true shape of the storage industry. Why this matters Done...

No flash – virtual instead

Wanted to attend Flash Memory Summit, but the press of work has kept StorageMojo’s analyst team at home this week. Sorry to miss it. But we’ll be saddling up for VMworld. If you’re there please say hello. Don’t be surprised if we seem shy:...

HP Discover 2013: Las Vegas

Heading off to the bright lights of Las Vegas today to attend HP Discover. Looking forward to an in-depth briefing on the 3PAR architecture in its current form. As usual, it’s always a bit of a shock to leave the solitude of northern Arizona ranch lands for a...

Off to SNW Europe

The StorageMojo team is saddling up for the long ride from the ranch land of northern Arizona to Frankfurt for Storage Networking World Europe next week. Going to spend the weekend hanging in Ghent and Bruges – love Belgian beer! – before arriving Monday...