SNIA reprise online

I gave a keynote at the last SNIA Symposium about the impact of 5 new datacenter technologies: 2.5″ drives flash SSDs guaranteed uptime storage 10 gigE Cloud storage Then last week I gave a reprise of the presentation to the SNIA end-user council. Whelming...

StorageMojo live! Today!

In glorious lo-fi monaural! Sterling opportunity to blow another precious hour of your work life in the guise of “continuing education.” Dial-in for a reprise of the keynote I gave at the SNIA summer symposium in San Jose. 5 technologies in search of a...

The view from StorageMojo

A global village in the mountains Did you notice the new header picture this week? No? That’s OK. I enjoy taking the pictures anyway. But this picture is from StorageMojo’s new global HQ. There is a spacious office – or it will be once the boxes are...

Seattle scalability conference videos

No, not here on StorageMojo. Over on Anil Gupta’s blog Network Storage. Scroll down. I liked the transactional memory preso and found Maidsafe intriguing. Perhaps one of StorageMojo’s smarter readers can explain the latter to me. I didn’t get the...

StorageMojo at SNIA Symposium

If your company is a SNIA member and you’re in the Bay Area the Storage Networking Industry Association Symposium might be the excuse you’re looking for to cut work on a lovely summer day. I’ll be delivering a keynote address on Wednesday morning,...

The Hitz report

The NetApp/Sun patent battle continues. I don’t see how NetApp can win this, given the Supreme Court’s Teleflex decision, which makes prior art a question that can be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. But the company is doggedly pursuing the...