A Free NAS Server With Your Fill Up, Ma’am?
Hey, the way gas prices are going up and NAS prices are coming down, this isn't as far-fetched as you might think. Gartner Dataquest notes that the smallest segment of the NAS market, systems that cost less than $500, has exploded over the past two years, and more...
EMC Investment in YottaYotta Confirmed
Everybody Unregenerate storage geeks talk about creating globally coherent distributed block storage services, but YottaYotta has done something about it. The busy elves at YY's Edmonton HQ have done it, and now they have EMC's investment to prove it. Senior EMC...
The Shot Heard ‘Round the Data Center
HP has an entertaining video of a rifle shot through an XP12000 array. I can't tell if the narrator's heavy gravitas delivery is meant to be slightly over the top, or if it really is humorless. But they have me wondering. Over at The Storage Network blog Mario...
So Mr. Tucci, Where Are EMC’s Google Application Notes?
They've come out of nowhere and in a few short years built one of the world's largest always on data centers supporting data and compute intensive applications such as search, mail, chat, mapping, blogging and much more. They roll out new applications faster than...
EMC Buys Distributed Caching Technology For Coming Google Battle
EMC's GM of the Grid & Utility Computing, Ian Baird, mentioned at EMC World in Boston this week that EMC had invested in distributed caching technology developed by YottaYotta, a Canadian startup, for their "Grid Storage" strategic direction. Distributed caching...
1TB Arrays: Stack ’em High, Sell ’em Cheap
PC World's review of 1TB disk boxes makes some important points. "With every drive we tested, we found setup easy and straightforward. The biggest differences in setup involved the connection interface and the drive configuration options (for features like RAID...
25x Data Compression Made Simple
Some /. readers (OK, most) expressed enormous skepticism about 25x data compression. So StorageMojo has dug deeper, looking at some patents, to get a better handle on the technology. Let's start with why so many people believe 25x is impossible. Though not often cited...
Build an Electric Lock Pick From An Old Hard Drive
This is off-topic, but fun. Got an old hard drive? Want to amaze your geek friends? Repel women? Check it out. As they note, bad guys will use better tools. If you want to attract women (or repel them less aggressively) try the hard drive wind chime. Update: Movie...
Flash Garden: 16 GB USB drive
The emergence of a 16GB USB flash drive for $1363 poses an interesting question: will Samsung's pre-announced 32GB flash drive cost $2600? Clearly there is some kind of kink in the price curve when a 4GB flash drive costs $19/GB, 8GB costs $32/GB and 16GB version...
Rotational Vibration Safeguard: Selling the Wet in Water?
Maybe I'm late to the party but I just noticed that Hitachi is touting RVS, Rotational Vibration Safeguard (pdf). Since all disks in disk drives rotate, all drives have had rotational vibration from day one. So what's new? Is this the equivalent of slapping "New: Now...
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