3bpc flash debut
I'm in Silicon Valley at the Flash Memory Summit. The big news so far: Intel and Micron announced they are sampling an 8 GB, 3 bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash. Commercial availability is expected in Q4, but don't be surprised if that date slips. Process tweaks needed...
@Flash Memory Summit
In Silicon Valley for this week's Flash Memory Summit. Looking forward to meeting flash heavies from Intel, Micron and some startups. Flash's impact on architecture is entering a new phase. On the consumer side shipping 3-bit MLC will drive cost down and adoption up....
Cloud’s app killer


Concall today with Bryan Cantrill, the smart guy behind Dtrace. Dtrace was the engine behind Sun's Oracle's Fishworks server and application monitor. Dtrace has also been incorporated into OS X. Bryan left Oracle last week and started Monday at Joyent the cloud...
Dear StorageMojo: low-cost archive storage?
This came in over the transom from a semiconductor engineer. He's wants home archive storage and is wondering why no one seems to sell it. I've been grappling with the same issue. Here's an edited-for-length excerpt from his letter: I use RAID server products from...
What is “primary” storage?
A commenter recently asked Archivas was focused on archive, do you expect the new solution to sustain performance for primary storage as well? Which is a good question, if you know what "primary" means. Do we? Tiers of a clown 10 years ago we all agreed on 1st tier or...
HDS: masters of stealth marketing
Winding up the week - it is Friday here - in Japan as a guest of Hitachi Data Systems. Fine hospitality from my American and Japanese hosts in steamy mid-summer Tokyo. Looking forward to Arizona. The practitioners in the group - one who loves XIV, others with EMC and...
Off to Tokyo
The friendly folks at Hitachi are flying me and a number of other analysts and bloggers to Tokyo. They want to tell us about their plans for - well, I don't know what - and it's under NDA. Normally I don't sign those, but between Tokyo - which I like - and the promise...
A cloud app for the masses
Cloud computing gets a bad rap because it can't replace corporate data centers for mission critical apps. But new computing paradigms never do that: it is the new capabilities they enable that drive adoption. Case in point: transcoding. Why? Anyone who shoots video...
Making data Vanish
Given how hard it is to save data you want (see The Universe hates your data) to keep, losing data on the web should be easy. It isn't, because it gets stored so many places in its travels. Problem But the power of the web means that silliness can now be stored and...
Greg Reyes sentenced
Greg Reyes, former CEO of Brocade, received a sentence of 18 months and a $15 million dollar fine for his conviction on 10 felony counts related to options backdating. Prosecutors had asked for 37 months and a $137 million dollar fine. Mr. Reyes was emotional at his...
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