Why private clouds are part of the future
James Hamilton, Amazon architect and a very smart guy, recently blogged about private clouds. In Private Clouds Are Not The Future he argues that economies of scale make public clouds much more efficient than private clouds. I think we agree that several effects make...
Oracle+Sun storage: wiser & brighter
While everyone else was watching the Apple iPad intro I was watching Oracle's John Fowler talk about their systems and storage strategy. I like the iPad, but the O+S strategy could reshape the storage industry. More details will emerge and many decisions still remain...
Will a 70 TB cartridge save LTO?
IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a technology that, if productized, could give us a 70 TB LTO tape cartridge. Tape isn't dead - that will be a long time coming - but its vital signs aren't good, either. Vacuum column, 800bpi tape drives Magnetic tape is the oldest...
Verari restart
Verari Systems is now Verari Technologies. The company's assets were purchased by the original founder, Dave Driggers, after an attempt last year to get another round of financing foundered. They've had some success with their containerized compute/storage systems....
Storage for version control
A reader writes: I found your blog after searching for storage alternatives. I have to say, its really impressive and has helped me a lot so far. I was wondering if you could offer some advice. We run an online version control service. Currently we are hosted on a...
StorageMojo back up!
Nothing malicious going on, AFAIK. The latest version of the Thesis WordPress theme isn't behaving. Downgraded Thesis to the working prior version. Will be moving the site to a private virtual server to get more RAM. Will finish loading the last 2 new price lists -...
Price Lists update
Is, technically, 2010 the beginning of a new decade? Only if you count starting with zero - as I'm sure many StorageMojo readers do. But even civilians seem to agree. Partly out of a desire to see the disastrous double-0s put behind us. Partly because, after all, who...
Cloud at Storage Visions 2010
I moderated a panel on cloud storage at Tom Coughlin's Storage Visions 2010 conference. Some good stuff came out of it. 4 companies presented: IBM, Bycast, Cleversafe and Asankya. IBM, now a services company, talked about the service needs of cloud providers or cloud...
Coolness @ Storage Visions/CES 2010
In no particular order, cool stuff at Storage Visions 2010 and CES. Mobo-mounted SSD. Soligen has announced an SSD that mounts on motherboards. The drive mounts firmly, requires no special cooling and takes little board space. Tiny USB drive. Verbatim has announced a...
StorageMojo @ Storage Visions & CES this week
2010 is off to a fast start: I'll be at Storage Visions 2010 conference on Tuesday and Wednesday and the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 on Thursday and Friday. If you're at SV, please look me up. I'll be moderating a cloud panel discussion on Wednesday. The...
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