What is DSSD building?
The brains behind the ZFS filesystem - including Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore - have been hard at work for several years at start up DSSD. What are they doing with Andy Bechtolsheim's money? Bill's recent Usenix bio says that ". . . DSSD, Inc., [is] a stealth startup...
StorageMojo’s best papers of FAST ’13
StorageMojo is focussed on new storage technologies, products, companies and markets. And where do new technologies come from? From people researching at the limits of the known. That's why StorageMojo attends the Usenix File And Storage Technology (FAST) conference...
FAST ’13
The StorageMojo team has been hankering to see some bright lights and - just maybe - avoid some more mountain snow and cold. So its off to the fleshpots of Silicon Valley to see what's been cooked up at the File And Storage Technology '13. If you see someone looking...
Why virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose
I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender problem. But we also had that problem when we were running...
The stovepipe vs the grid
Hewlett-Packard made a major announcement in December: their grid-based StoreServ 7000 based on 3PAR software. 3PAR has been selling enterprise-class storage for almost a decade and HP is building on that legacy with a radical take on enterprise storage. HP calls it...
Long-term storage at Storage Visions 2013
No CES for me this year, but did attend Storage Visions 2013. Some cool stuff there. Panasonic's Blu-ray RAID archive robot Panasonic has a Blu-ray-based storage system that looks interesting. Imagine 12 Blu-ray discs in the striped RAID configuration. The RAID gives...
2013: Year of the slog
There are years where new ideas and concepts explode. And there are years of consolidation. 2013 will be the latter. The storage industry has a lot to digest. Here are some of the issues. ReRAM Would-be vendors of the enterprise NAND flash replacement technology,...
EMC’s Xtreme embarrassment
EMC's Pravda, Chuck Hollis, chats in an interview about XtremIO's problems. This quote from a Storage Newsletter interview may have some transcription errors, since SN is a French publication, but let's not split hairs. Read it all to learn more. When will you have a...
Nimbus Data is for real
StorageMojo has said little about Nimbus Data, despite several briefings by CEO Thomas Isakovich over the years, due to skepticism about the company. Would you trust a company that lists one person as the management team? But Nimbus has persevered despite...
HP Discover Europe
The friendly folks at HP are hosting the StorageMojo analyst team at the Frankfurt Germany Discover show. Don't know what to expect, but looking forward to seeing some advanced storage kit. The StorageMojo take If you're there please look me up. An email or comment is...
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