Flash geometry and performance
Last year StorageMojo interviewed Violin Memory CEO Don Basile. He noted that as flash features sizes shrank, NAND would get slower as well as reducing endurance. Intellectually that is correct, but it isn't an easy concept. Flash stores a physical thing - electrons -...
No flash – virtual instead
Wanted to attend Flash Memory Summit, but the press of work has kept StorageMojo's analyst team at home this week. Sorry to miss it. But we'll be saddling up for VMworld. If you're there please say hello. Don't be surprised if we seem shy: seeing so many people in one...
Asigra reboots backup pricing model
For reasons that elude me I accepted Asigra's invitation to attend their Toronto Partner Summit last week. I'm glad I did. After all, I hate backup. Not because I like losing data, but because it reminds me how flaky digital storage is. Asigra is the largest backup...
10 years after – lessons from a small & profitable storage vendor
If I were starting a storage company there are several things I'd do: Start up in an area where there was lots of storage engineering and marketing expertise. Get substantial financing once I had my first customers. Be aggressive about marketing the company. But my...
The death of disks
A forecast says PC shipments with disk drives will drop by a third between now and 2017. IBM is pushing the all-flash datacenter. SSD start ups are claiming that flash is really as cheap as disk with much better performance. Is it the beginning of the end for disk...
Facebook’s advanced erasure codes
We want our data protected from device failures. When there is a failure we want to get our data back quickly. And we want to pay as little as possible for the protection and the restore. How? Recent research by hyper-scale system managers - mostly Microsoft and...
Can Mac ZFS be saved?
The convoluted path of OS X ZFS is taking another turn. Greenbytes, who bought Zevo from Tens Complement, will be transitioning the Mac ZFS product - Zevo - out of their company sometime this summer. Where? That's the question. Can Zevo be part of a reasonable...
HP’s big transition
IDC says HP is selling 17% less storage last quarter than a year ago. Was that because the high-end EVA and XP businesses were contracting faster than the new 3PAR converged storage business was growing? IDC definitions IDC defines a disk storage system broadly,...
Creative Storage conference June 25th
As both a video producer and an analyst of emerging technologies, StorageMojo likes to stay abreast of what's happening in the media world. Video remains a major driver of infrastructure requirements and commercial opportunity - a yeasty combination that encourages...
HP Discover 2013: Las Vegas
Heading off to the bright lights of Las Vegas today to attend HP Discover. Looking forward to an in-depth briefing on the 3PAR architecture in its current form. As usual, it's always a bit of a shock to leave the solitude of northern Arizona ranch lands for a busy...
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