Why are flash prices dropping?

Prices give us valuable information about supply and demand – or market power – if we watch them. Commodity storage prices – disks, DRAM and NAND flash – are particularly interesting since they often make up a significant percent of a...

ZFS fight is over. Yay!

NetApp – not Oracle – announced that . . . both parties have agreed to dismiss their pending patent litigation, which began in 2007 between Sun Microsystems and NetApp. Oracle and NetApp seek to have the lawsuits dismissed without prejudice. The terms of...

StorageMojo: on the road again

StorageMojo’s peripatetic Global HQ will be spending a couple of days in Edmonton, AB before lighting out for Glacier NP and other scenic points south. Which means StorageMojo will not be attending VMworld. Not that I don’t want to. The timing just...

Quantum physics for the rest of us

I did something last week that I haven’t done for a year: read a book. I do plenty of reading, but somehow books fell off the list of preferred input devices. Time to buy a Kindle or an iPad? In retrospect I was taking a vacation from blogging. If I’d...

Memorial Day, 2010

Today in the United States we celebrate a national holiday, Memorial Day, to honor those who have fought for our country and its Constitution. I thought to re-post one of my Memorial Day posts from last year, Hospital ship Haven in Nagasaki, Japan, 1945 about my...

StorageMojo traveling

Off to Boston for a group blogger tour today and back Saturday. The agenda has been shrouded in secrecy though I believe EMC is on the list – with no NDA. Looking forward to that. Next week off to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters...