Why startups fail
A great piece at CB Insights. They collected the failure stories of 101 startups and then broke those failures into 20 categories. Spoiler alert! Here are the top 10 reasons for failure, as compiled by CB Insights. What I find interesting is that 8 of the top 10...
A transaction processing system for NVRAM
Adapting to NVRAM is going to be a lengthy process. This was pointed out by a recent paper. More on that later. Thankfully, Intel wildly pre-announced 3D XPoint. That has spurred OS and application vendors to consider how it might affect their products. As we saw with...
A distributed fabric for rack scale computing
After years of skepticism about rack scale design (RSD), StorageMojo is coming around to the idea that it could work. It's still a lab project, but researchers are making serious progress on the architectural issues. For example, in a recent paper, XFabric: A...
Infinidat sweetens All Flash Array Challenge
In response to yesterday's StorageMojo post on Infinidat, Brian Carmody of Infinidat tweeted: Robin, Verde Valley is a great organization. @INFINIDAT will donate $10K for every Infinidat Challenge customer who mentions your blog post.— Brian Carmody (@initzero)...
Infinidat’s sweet AFA challenge
StorageMojo has observed, many times, that great marketing of a mediocre product beats mediocre marketing of a great product all the time. Thus it is always of interest when someone comes up with an innovative marketing wrinkle. That's what Infinidat has done with...
Hike blogging: Devils Creek Road
Taking a vacation from the usual slog in NoAZ. I'm some 60 miles north of Seattle, working on my rain tan. The weatherman claims we'll break 70 degrees sometime during my visit, but I'm not counting on it. Occasional patches of blue sky remind me of what is possible,...
Routing the I/O stack
Lots of energy around the concept of Rack Scale Design (Intel's nomenclature) in systems design these days. Instead of depositing a cpu, memory, I/O, and storage on a single motherboard, why not have a rack of each, interconnected over a high-bandwidth, low-latency...
Liqid’s composable infrastructure
The technology wheel is turning again. Yesterday it was converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. Tomorrow it's composable infrastructure. Check out Liqid a software-and-some-hardware company that I met at NAB. The software - Element - enables you to configure...
NAB 2017 storage roundup
Spent two days at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confab in Las Vegas. With 4k video everywhere, storage was a hot topic as well. Here's what caught my eye. Object storage - often optimized for large files - continues to be a growth area....
Is NetApp still doomed?
A reader wrote to ask for the StorageMojo take on NetApp now, as opposed to the assessment in How doomed is NetApp? two years ago. Q3 had some good news for NetApp. In their latest 10Q filing, they noted that while revenues for the first 9 months of the year were down...
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