Frontiers of storage: plasmonics & metamaterials
Two words: plasmonics; metamaterials. These could reshape storage over the next 20 years. What are they? Plasmons, specifically surface plasmon waves, are generated when light interacts with a metal. The free electrons in the metal support a wave of charge density...
Frontiers of storage: magnetic holography
Introducing an irregular series on speculative storage technologies. StorageMojo likes emerging technologies, but these are still gestating and may never emerge. Magnetic holography is first. Optical holography has gotten lots of funding over the years - most recently...
Seagate moves more potential to Kinetic
Seagate's Kinetic Vision moves closer to reality. Seagate is continuing their Kinetic Open Storage program with a couple of tools announced and demo'd at the Open Compute conference in San Jose today. I'm not there, but I'm glad to see the continued focus. For those...
Yee-hah! FAST ’14 next month!
The elite analyst team here at StorageMojo is excited: we're going to the Usenix FAST - File And Storage Technology - conference next month, assuming no blizzards here in the Arizona mountains. But with the current drought, things are looking good! FAST is...
Is IBM’s storage business doomed?
IBM's vestigial hardware business - 15.5% of Q4 company revenue - continues to slide. This won't end well. In its Q4/2013 earnings call, IBM's profits were higher than forecast, but revenues were lower. Hardware was the major culprit. Total Systems and Technology...
Nutanix kicks it
Last year Nimble Storage was the poster boy for rapid growth and success. But that was last year. This year there's a new poster boy: Nutanix. I spoke to VP Howard Ting last year about what was driving Nutanix. After all, the concept of a building block comprising...
SMR, the stealth drive revolution
WD is sampling SMR - Shingled Magnetic Recording - disk drives to several cloud vendors including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Seagate announced sales of a million SMR drives in September. HGST likely has a similar program under way. SMR in a minute Disk...
The top 5 alternatives to XtremIO
If a well-funded startup came to you and asked you to bet your business on a brand-new architecture and product, what would you say? "I'll wait" is a likely answer. So why is it any different when that start up product comes from EMC? You could argue that they have...
Barcelona next week
The crack StorageMojo analyst team will be attending HP Discover next week in beautiful Barcelona. There is a new guard in the ESSN group now that Dave Donatelli has moved on. HP is going through a particularly tough product transition. But, unlike EMC, HP is doing it...
Best workload for enterprise arrays?
On the 11th StorageMojo asked what workloads are ideal for enterprise arrays on a price/performance basis - and got some good answers. In all cases commenters are expressing their personal opinions and not the official policy of any company they may work for. Here are...
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