The Open Source Storage Revolution Everyone Should Join
Except Storage Vendors It's time to break the back of the storage oligopoly. Rip the still-beating heart out of this proprietary industry, drop it in a blender and hit "puree". We have the weapons. History is on our side. Now is the time. Here is the plan. The storage...
Google File System Eval: Part II
In yesterday's post I ran through a quick (really, it was!) overview of the Google File System's organization and storage-related features such as RAID and high-availability. I want to offer a little more data about the performance of GFS before offering my conclusion...
Tape On Steroids Hits Home Run
The busy storage elves at IBM's Almaden Research Center have crammed almost 7 billion bits -- about 800 megabytes -- onto a square inch of test tape, a 15x improvement over today's shipping products. The PR goes on to say: The demonstration shows that magnetic tape...
Google File System Eval: Part I
GFS: Fundamental Paradigm Shift or One-off Oddity? As regular readers know, I believe that the current model of enterprise storage is badly broken. When I see something that blows that model away I like to learn more. In particular, I assess the marketability of the...
EMC Price List On Line – A Nicely Formatted PDF
The nice people at EMC sent me a link to a PDF version of the EMC price list. You can download it from here. They confirmed that it is a current price list and that, oddly enough, EMC PR believes that EMC price lists are company confidential. So let's not tell them...
Adding Extra Storage To A PC
The Wall Street Journal, somewhat surprisingly given the average net worth of their readers, has an article about adding storage to a PC in yesterday's edition. They even cover making your own external drive. For my SOHO readers who are computerphobic, it is a good...
Good Storage Needs Bad Competitors
[W]hat happens when we can make anything ten times better for one hundredth the cost? How will that affect our society? Eric Drexler, as quoted by Tom Foremski in Silicon Valley Watcher. Eric Drexler, one of the fathers of nanotechnology, gets to think really big...
Wilting Under StorageMojo Criticism, Sun’s Canepa Resigns
Did he get tired of waiting for his stock options to see daylight? Perhaps reporting to a guy with a ponytail didn't appeal - HP guys can be funny that way. Or maybe five years in the Mos Eisley of storage finally broke him. Something, clearly. An oddity: Sun says...
StorageMojo’s Pricing Guides
StorageMojo.com is pleased to announce the availability of pricing information for most of the major players in the storage industry. Whether you are budgeting, comparing, curious about options or just wondering if your company can afford a SAN, these guides offer...
Dell Storage Blues
Steve Denegri, formerly the star storage analyst at Morgan Keegan, now RBC Capital Markets, sent StorageMojo.com this comment on the recent Dell financial shortfall: My thoughts on the Dell shortage as far as the enterprise segment goes: Dell customers who are...
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