2009’s big STORies
2009 has been an eventful year: the Great Recession has driven big changes in enterprise behavior, opening up the field to many new players. Isilon, for one, is reporting healthy growth and they were on the ropes 2 years ago. Those changes are reflected in my take on...
Why we need 4k drives
WD has started shipping drives that drop the ancient 512 byte disk sector for a 4096 byte - 4k - sector, and the rest of industry isn't far behind. For several decades disk sectors have been almost always been 512 bytes (NetApp tried 520 bytes - and irritated their...
Geoff Barrall out as Data Robotics CEO
I noticed this morning that co-founder Geoff Barrall is out as Data Robotics CEO. The VCs installed their own guy, who previously was head of sales and marketing at on-the-ropes Brocade. Given Geoff's banishment from the executive team and the lack of a "time to take...
A 1 petabyte science project
But not that kind of science project. This is the real deal, already running near a petabyte, needing to upgrade and looking for answers. Sounds like they'll be spending real money real soon. I edited for brevity and asked the writer to monitor the comments to help...
Thank you, StorageMojo readers!
Edelman, the big PR firm, blogger Jonny Bentwood ranked the top 400 IT analyst blogs. This includes people from Gartner, IDC, Forrester and all the other firms, all the way down to the 1 man shops - like me. StorageMojo was the top-ranked storage blog, coming in at...
Tiny server clusters
Virtual machines (VMs) solve the problem of many tiny servers on a big server. VMs are a logical outgrowth of Moore's Law: server CPUs got bigger, faster, than the apps required. And Windows Server didn't handle multiple apps well. But the growth of 100 megawatt...
A data robot is eating the low end
Geoff Barrall founded BlueArc at the high end of NAS performance. He then founded Data Robotics, maker of the Drobo low end arrays. A group of bloggers visited DR last month and a lucky few - not including me - took brand new Drobo2 units home. The idea For those who...
Let Gartner tell your story?
Looking at ZL Technologies suit against Gartner (seeGartner's magic hydrant) I noticed an interesting disconnect between their filings and their web site. The filings make impressive claims: Symantec’s search is so slow as to render it useless for its intended...
Consolidated I/O for virtual data centers
Xsigo (see-go) produces an I/O consolidation appliance whose elegance impresses. I/O clutter Typical blade servers have several I/O adapters for networks and storage. Today's multi-CPU - each multi-core - mobo's need much bandwidth to stay busy, thus 2-4 GigE or...
Price lists down up?
Update: All -I think - the links have have been reset using a fresh batch of WordPress grout. If any still don't work please let me know. End update. I'm told that the StorageMojo price lists are down because the pages were switched to permalinks. I didn't knowingly...
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