HGST & Amplidata to co-develop “ultra-dense” storage
Amplidata announced this morning that Western Digital Capital has made a $10m investment. HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., has selected Amplidata’s Himalaya software to jointly develop a family of ultra-dense storage solutions to address the...
Friday hike blogging: Teacup Trail
This view of Coffeepot Rock is from Teacup Trail. This is a more heavily traveled area as it's close to town, the trails are easy - except for Thunder Mt. Trail, where a friend died last year - and the scenery is great. Enjoy!
Deep file analytics
A new storage market is being born. Will it survive? As infrastructure continues to adjust to a data-centric world, the ability to manage data - not just storage - is poised to become a must-have capability. Traditionally, of course, data management has meant...
Infinidat: 21st century enterprise storage arrives
Who would have thought, at this late date, that an upstart would appear to challenge high-end EMC, NetApp, HDS and IBM arrays with a fundamentally superior product. But when you don't have an installed base - and a cash cow - to protect, you can go big. That upstart...
Labor Day 2014
The brutal struggles of Capital and Labor in the 1800s may seem far away in 2014, but they continue to this day. Now there's less blood, but a good deal more money. Why do we have a Labor Day? Wikipedia says: Labor Day in the United States is a holiday celebrated on...
Friday hike blogging: Airport Mesa
Often named as one of the most scenic airports in America, the airport sits on a mesa high above the town. There's a trail that circles the mesa and - more important for me - I can walk to it. According to my iPhone app, the hike is 7.22 miles with 1788 feet of...
The network crunch: DAS and SAN
Several years ago an Intel briefer promised me $50 10Gb Ethernet ports. The shocker: prices have dropped little in the last 8 years - well more than a decade in Internet time. I don't look back as often as I should. But a note from a ZDNet reader prompted some...
Why are array architectures so old?
25 years ago I was working on DEC's earliest RAID array. When I look at today's "high-end" arrays, it's shocking how little architectural change the big iron arrays have embraced. The industry is ripe for disruption, only part of which is coming from cloud vendors....
Friday hike blogging: clouds!
There's a reason Arizona doesn't have Daylight Saving Time: we have as much daylight as we can stand. With over 300 sunny days a year - and the sunniest are often the hottest - it's a relief to see the sun set as the perceived temps drop 10-15°F. Despite that, summer...
DataGravity launches
The co-founder of Equallogic, Paula Long, is heading up the new startup DataGravity. Their system takes advantage of active/active controllers to bring deep storage inspection to small and medium businesses. What they do DataGravity brings a new level of information...
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