Friday hike blogging: Mormon Canyon
After several days where I couldn't get out I left at 6am for my favorite hike, the Cibola-Jordan-Soldiers Pass-Brins Mesa loop. Big decision: clockwise or counter-clockwise? Clockwise is gentler with an uphill bias until reaching the highest point - 5138 feet - after...
Scale Computing: infrastructure made simple
Google and Amazon have armies of PhDs to design, manage and diagnose their scale-out systems. Few small to medium sized businesses do - nor should they - but they should still have the advantages of scale-out infrastructure. Imagine infrastructure that comes in a box...
Got interoperability testing?
At Flash Memory Summit StorageMojo spoke to David Woolf and Kerry Munson of the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab. It's been around for decades and still is. It is primarily staffed by college students - cheap labor - managed by senior engineers....
Seagate’s Kinetic vision shipping – but not from Seagate
Remember Seagate's Kinetic open storage vision? Turns out there is a shipping product embodying the same ideas - but not from Seagate. Surprised? Huawei's UDS - Universal Distributed Storage - system launched two years ago with a home-grown smart disk. Each UDS drive...
Friday hike blogging
Looking northwest from Hangover Trail on Wednesday. Hangover is a new trail that I'd never been on before. An incredible hike. I'm going to limit hike blogging to Fridays. But next week I'll be at the Flash Memory Summit and won't be hiking - at least not at...
High performance SSDs: hot, hungry & sometimes slow
Anyone looking at how flash SSDs have revolutionized power constrained mobile computing could be forgiven for thinking that all SSDs are power-efficient. But they're not. In a recent Usenix HotStorage '14 paper Power, Energy and Thermal Considerations in SSD-Based I/O...
Performance: IOPS or latency or data services?
Unpacking the data services vs performance metric debate. Why we should stop the IOPS wars and focus on latency. IOPS is not that important for most data centers today because flash arrays are so much faster than the storage they replace. That's why the first post was...
Hike blogging
Sunday morning took the Brins Mesa trail loop. Sometimes people wonder if I ever get bored with the scenery. Not yet!
Flash Memory Summit 2014
The entire StorageMojo analyst team will be saddling up and leaving the bone-dry high desert of Arizona to see the fleshpots of Santa Clara for the 2014 Flash Memory Summit. StorageMojo's Chief Analyst will be chairing Session U-2: Annual Update on Enterprise Flash...
The new storage industry rave
It used to be so simple: EMC, NetApp, Hitachi and the captive storage businesses of systems companies. Add in some fast running startups, such as today's Nimble, Nutanix and Avere, to keep things interesting. But no more. While the startups will require several more...
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