Jack be Nimble
Talked to Nimble Storage a few months ago. The 1st time they sounded cool and now I know why. What they do Nimble builds a converged storage appliance out of commodity hard drives and SSDs that offers high performance - is there any other kind? - and iSCSI, backup, a...
OpenStorage Summit next week
StorageMojo's Global HQ is pulling up stakes and traveling to wilds of Palo Alto for the OpenStorage Summit 2010. I'm hoping to hear more about the future of ZFS and other storage stacks. I'll arrive Tuesday afternoon and will leave Thursday. If you're in the...
Objectively speaking: the future of objects
One infrastructure to rule them all discussed the emerging enterprise need for a single, scalable file storage infrastructure. But what infrastructure? Some background to this is last year's Cloud Quadrant and this year's Why private clouds are part of the future....
Why are flash prices dropping?
Prices give us valuable information about supply and demand - or market power - if we watch them. Commodity storage prices - disks, DRAM and NAND flash - are particularly interesting since they often make up a significant percent of a product's total cost. Drive...
Calling all grad students
The friendly folks at Scality have put up $100,000 to encourage open source development of useful cloud storage bits. It's open to anyone, not just grad students. Yup, it's corporate self-interest at work - Scality sells object-based cloud storage software - but...
Donatelli’s $2B bet
HP's off-the-charts $2.35B buy of 3Par is why Dave Donatelli gets the big bucks and you don't. Mr. Donatelli, late of EMC, has big plans. But what are they? We can tease out part of Donatelli's worldview from the size of the bet. 3Par fills a big hole in HP's lineup....
ZFS fight is over. Yay!
NetApp - not Oracle - announced that . . . both parties have agreed to dismiss their pending patent litigation, which began in 2007 between Sun Microsystems and NetApp. Oracle and NetApp seek to have the lawsuits dismissed without prejudice. The terms of the agreement...
One infrastructure to rule them all
Robert Gray, a former analyst at IDC and long time friend, asked me to respond to a comment from NetApp president Tom Georgens. Tom told Information Week that: . . . virtualization is fundamentally changing the way data centers are designed: instead of individual...
StorageMojo: on the road again
StorageMojo's peripatetic Global HQ will be spending a couple of days in Edmonton, AB before lighting out for Glacier NP and other scenic points south. Which means StorageMojo will not be attending VMworld. Not that I don't want to. The timing just didn't work out....
3Par-ty tonight – hangover tomorrow?
Wondering about HP's counter for 3Par. Dell's offer makes sense: they're building expertise and a high-margin business. Dell and long time supplier EMC are growing apart as Dell realizes that that the relationship is doing little for them - and a lot for EMC. But HP?...
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