Hike blog: Airport loop
Walked over to the Sunset trail and thence up to Airport Mesa. This view is looking south from the east side of the mesa. This is my favorite time of year due to the monsoon - rainy season - clouds. Probably have a thunderstorm later today. And yes, there's an airport...
Quasi-NVRAM using built-in battery backup
Note, a version of this post appeared this morning on ZDnet. Given that roughly a billion battery-powered computers are sold each year, you'd think that the engineers would be busy rearchitecting the storage stack to take advantage of built-in - and usually...
TwinStrata buy makes it official: cloud gateway a feature, not a product
EMC buying TwinStrata to put on VMAX. The StorageMojo take First of all I hope Nicos and John made out like bandits. Not likely without a bidding war - I haven't heard of one - but they did a good job building TS. One of the attractions for EMC is that TS supports...
Ch-ch-changes @StorageMojo
As my 10th anniversary blogging approaches, I've been reconsidering the StorageMojo business model. Some changes are in order and I'd like your advice. Hike blogging. The crack StorageMojo analyst team likes to go hiking and biking several times a week. Hike blogging...
Hike blogging: July 4th, 2014
A new hike on July 4th. Hiked around Twin Buttes, about 7-8 miles. Heavy cloud cover heralding the start of the summer monsoon season. Finally got some sun breaking through the clouds and took this picture looking south. Courteous comments welcome, of course. Readers,...
Data services more important than latency? Not!
Yesterday's post on IOPS vs latency provoked some controversy on Twitter. Kappy, CTO of a midwestern IT consultancy, asserted @storagemojo Most AFA users don't even care about latency. Sure there are latency sensitive apps, but data services are more important. When...
IOPS is not the key number
Americans love round numbers. 600HP. 200MPH. $1,000,000,000. 15% capital gains tax rate. 10Gb/s. 6TB drive. 1,000,000 IOPS. $2/GB. Those are brawny, manly numbers that red-blooded Americans can relate to. Not fussy little decimals, sliding further into irrelevancy...
Hike blogging
This morning, looking west from the crest of Cibola trail, near the start of a 6 mile hike. Click on it for a larger version. The StorageMojo take Psychic income isn't taxable. Earn all you can! Courteous comments welcome, of course.
Crossbar shows ultra-dense RRAM architecture
Crossbar, the resistance RAM (RRAM) startup, opened the kimono a little wider today with the announcement of their "1TnR" architecture, which they have implemented on pre-production test chips. Unpacking 1TnR: 1 Transistor drives n number of RRAM cells. How many? They...
Crossbar founder finds metals move – in a solid
NVRAM maker Crossbar's co-founder and professor at U Michigan Wei Lu has published a paper describing a never-before-seen phenomena: metal nanoparticles moving in a solid. Crossbar is pushing RRAM - Resistance RAM - but there is a problem with most RRAM...
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