Symantec to split – finally!
Multiple outlets are reporting that Symantec (SYMC), which bought storage software leader Veritas for $10.6 billion in 2005, is soon to break itself up into a security company and a storage software company. SYMC segments their business into User Productivity &...
Friday hike blogging: the west fork of Oak Creek
The most popular local trail is the west fork of Oak Creek. It's relatively flat and, thanks to the high canyon walls and riparian foliage, usually shady - a big plus in the summer months. The trail has been closed for the last 4 months due to the 21,000 acre Slide...
Reconstruction almost complete
Like reconstructing Leeloo from the Fifth Element, with no Milla Jovovich. Or a replacement drive in a RAID set. This has been a busy week, but not with research and blogging. Busy fixing the blog instead. WordPress 4.0 broke the StorageMojo theme. The themesters came...
Friday hike blogging: Brins Mesa
I frequently hike the Brins Mesa-Soldiers Pass-Jordan Trail loop, but Wednesday Qing wanted to shake things up. So once we made the top of the mesa we turned north and hiked another mile and about 500 feet higher. That took us to the edge of the Mogollon Rim. On top...
Macromolecular storage: the next frontier
Disk drives and flash are already pushing the limits of nanotechnology to increase density. But what if we went with encoding data directly into molecules? Does a petabyte per cc sound interesting? In Advances in Macromolecular Data Storage, Masud Mansuripur, a...
EMC’s “Federation” meme is so dead
With reports from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that EMC has been shopping itself to HP, Dell and perhaps Cisco and Oracle (pretty please!) it's clear that the "EMC Federation" concept has cratered. Why did it take so long? While an activist investor...
Friday hike blogging: Chicken Point
Got up at 6am last Sunday and headed off to the Broken Arrow trailhead. There are several possible loops but so far I've stuck with the longest one around Twin Buttes. It's about 6.5 miles with over 1300 ft of total vertical, so it's a decent workout. Lots of great...
StorPool’s new distributed storage software
It was obvious in 2006 that Google's clean-sheet GFS would revolutionize massive storage. The problem has been taking Google's concepts and scaling them down to less than warehouse scale. A number of companies have tried - Nutanix is probably the latest - and there's...
Friday hike blogging: Brins Mesa
With family visiting I only got out once this week: a 3 hour hike on the Brins Mesa, Soldiers Pass, Cibola and Jordan Trail's loop. It's a favorite: bracing vertical; much variety; not too many tourists (usually); and, of course, fabulous vistas. We're just coming to...
Optimizing erasure-coded storage for latency and cost
Erasure coded (EC) storage has achieved remarkable gains over current RAID arrays in fault-tolerance and storage efficiency, but the knock against it is performance. Sure, it's highly available and cheap, but it's slo-o-w. Advanced erasure codes - those beyond...
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