How tape dies
Storage Newsletter reports that Tape Drive and Media Revenues Decreased by 25% in 2009. The data comes from a report by the Santa Clara Consulting Group. The numbers show us how old tape formats die: slowly. While the overall market for drives and media was $1.58B it...
Room at the top
Kaminario has introduced the world's fastest SAN storage, the K2. If time is money, this is for you. DRAM Kaminario's K2 is fast because DRAM, not disk, is the primary storage. DRAM's low latency, high bandwidth and durability breaks the tight link between capacity...
Quantum physics for the rest of us
I did something last week that I haven't done for a year: read a book. I do plenty of reading, but somehow books fell off the list of preferred input devices. Time to buy a Kindle or an iPad? In retrospect I was taking a vacation from blogging. If I'd known that in...
Memorial Day, 2010
Today in the United States we celebrate a national holiday, Memorial Day, to honor those who have fought for our country and its Constitution. I thought to re-post one of my Memorial Day posts from last year, Hospital ship Haven in Nagasaki, Japan, 1945 about my...
Seagate gets hybrid SSD/HDD right
A hybrid of SSD and hard drive that gives you the best of both worlds. That's the theory anyway. But I won't keep you in suspense: I think Seagate has hit a home run with their new hybrid XT architecture. Specs Take a standard issue 7200 rpm, 500 GB notebook SATA...
Shock, vibe and awe
Shouting at a disk drive will cause it to stop. But what about the constant nagging they get in busy data centers? That's a bigger problem. Bad, bad, bad vibrations The use of consumer-grade SATA drives in the enterprise raises the concern. A 2005 study, Performance...
Another scale-out storage vendor bought
Harmonic is acquiring video production infrastructure and storage provider Omneon for $274 million. They'd raised about $100M since their founding. Omneon Video Networks is a specialized storage company that provides broadcast quality storage for digital media, along...
StorageMojo @EMC World
Leaving Sunday for beautiful downtown Boston. Really: much nicer since they finished the Big Dig. Hoping to learn more about Atmos. Did you know it is available as an online service? And I want to talk to some of the RSA researchers working on storage, but I'm not...
Cisco’s UCS limited scale
Should a Unified Computing System be able to scale to meet growing application needs? Of course, but the network must scale with it. The problem: Cisco's enterprise architecture doesn't scale. And that isn't only the StorageMojo take. Gartner VP Joe Skorupa doesn't...
A deep dive into Cisco’s UCS
One of the highlights of the Gestalt IT tour was a half day on Cisco's UCS and associated products. But this was the real deal: an experienced and technical Cisco presenter going deep for a crowd of skeptical IT pros. Digging into the details would reveal the...
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