StorageMojo at NAB ’11
CES is a lot of fun, but my favorite toy trade show is the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention. I arrive tomorrow and return Wednesday and hope - on the way back - to walk across the new bridge that is 900 feet above the Colorado River at Hoover Dam....
Off to SNW
The StorageMojo analyst team is gearing up for SNW for the first time in over a year. If you're there feel free to say hello. If you want to talk about your company leave a comment - I won't post it - and let's connect. Courteous comments welcome, of course.
NetApp’s Engenuity
Does NetApp's purchase of LSI's storage business - not known as Engenio - portend a fundamental change in NetApp's business model? No and yes. Here's why. The story NetApp has often contrasted their single focus on Data ONTAP with EMC's confederation of businesses....
StorageMojo @Big Data NYC next week
The younger StorageMojo analysts have heard that New York is a den of sin and depravity and can't wait to try some. With new Wrangler jeans and polished silver bolos they are ready to par-tay with some big city gals. Yee-ha! Should I tell them that it will be 95%...
Flash isn’t storage!
It isn't about the capacity. It's the performance. I few weeks ago I asked StorageMojo readers to help out Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor research firm. They did, and Jim got some surprising results. Now that I have finished interviewing 21 PCIe SSD...
Show StorageMojo some love
Update: The survey is now closed. Thanks to everyone who responded! I'll have more later on the results. End update. StorageMojo would like your help. TechnoQWAN LLC, StorageMojo's publisher, is a research and analysis firm. An IT supplier has retained us to help plan...
Snow on the rocks
A cold but beautiful day today: click to enlarge We do get snow in Arizona. But here at 4500 feet we don't get much: I don't own a snow shovel. At 7,000 feet they ALL own snow shovels. The StorageMojo take Hope you enjoy the picture. Now back to our regularly...
EMC channels their inner prankster
EMC is spending time and money to prank NetApp. Why? Stephen Foskett documents things EMC is doing to irritate NetApp: A small fleet of Minis with EMC colors parked in front of NetApp HQ Marking the sidewalks in front of NetApp's HQ with EMC slogans Sharing photos of...
Great work at FAST ’11
After a quick scan of the paper titles I wasn't impressed. But after seeing presentations and posters I am. Here's some I found interesting. I'll be posting longer pieces on some of these. A Study of Practical Deduplication Full paper *Best Paper Winner* Tradeoffs in...
StorageMojo @FAST ’11
It's that time of the year again: the Usenix File And Storage Technology conference in San Jose next Tuesday thru Thursday. The elite StorageMojo analyst SWAT unit will be there, in color coordinated Kevlar and Spandex, rappelling into the Marriott ballroom. So come...
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