@SDC this week

The StorageMojo analyst team saddled up and left the ranges of northern Arizona for the wilds of Silicon Valley. Look for a bowlegged crew in Wrangler jeans. I will be joining the series of roundtable discussions organized by Stephen Foskett. I don’t really know...

ZFS returns to the Mac

I’ve been a fan of ZFS from its early days and I’m a Mac user who has experienced data corruption thanks to its antiquated HFS+ file system. Thus I’m pleased to see that Greenbytes is releasing ZFS for Mac. A post on ZDNet explains the details: Now...

Time in

It was a break, not a vacation. I’m planning one of the latter this week in San Diego. If there’s someone in the SD neighborhood I should talk to, please comment. Otherwise I’ll be lounging in the cool ocean breezes, iced drink in hand. Love the...

Time out

After more than 6 years of relatively steady writing, I’m taking a break. No cell phone. No computer. No Internet. Until June 25th. There will be comment moderation, so please comment subject to the usual “Courteous comments welcome, of course”...

Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea?

Think: if NAND flash storage arrays were being developed today, what is the chance that we’d put the flash into little bricks and then plug a bunch of them into a backplane? So why do it now? It is a truism of design that when a new technology is developed, we...

14 things to know about XIV

It was almost 4 years ago that IBM bought XIV (See 2008: cluster storage goes mainstream). StorageMojo couldn’t understand IBM’s product positioning – yeah, the world was clamoring for a block device for multi-media – but liked the...