Storage weather forecast: much coolness
Spending the week in Silicon Valley catching up on storage progress. Short takes: Hyper-V storage virtualization. Software now in beta that dramatically increases the Microsoft virtualization layer's storage chops: cheap snapshots; high-performance I/O with multiple...
Redundant array of inexpensive servers
A recent post on the dumb disk fallacy argues that enterprise storage isn't overpriced. That misses the point: enterprise arrays may not be overpriced - but they overshoot most market requirements. That's why there's so much innovation in the high capacity/low cost...
StorageMojo in Silicon Valley next week
I have some openings Tuesday and Wednesday - 10th , 11th - for folks who'd like to engage. Let me know in the comments or at my email. Thanks! Update: my schedule is full. Watch this space for future travel info.
Gartner’s magic hydrant
It gushes money Gartner's business model is genius. They gather information from vendors and users - for large fees from both - and then sell that information back to them for even more money. Bliss. They own a toll booth on the user/vendor information highway. And...
Mac ZFS is dead
Ding, dong. PC file system progress took a giant step back this week with the news on MacOSforge that Apple's ZFS project has been discontinued. ZFS Project Shutdown 2009-10-23 The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed...
Cool companies at SNW
Spent 3 days at fall '09 SNW. Given the economy my expectations were low. The good news: it was active. The better news: the pace of innovation across storage is accelerating, despite the economy and the drop in VC funding. Make that perhaps because of the drop in VC...
Ask StorageMojo: EqualLogic vs LeftHand & more
These requests came in over the transom in the last couple of days. Maybe some StorageMojo readers have wisdom to share. I have a question I hope you can help me with. My boss asked me . . . to research HP Left-hand SANs and Dell Equallogic SANs. Do you have any...
1 million IOPS in 1 RU
Sun announced the, or removed from stealth mode, the F5100, their flash-based storage array that uses SO-DIMM form-factor flash modules (see last month's post for the StorageMojo take on the unannounced product). With 20 flash modules and 480 GB of capacity it starts...
Optical nearing the end of the line
TDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer optical disk with 320 GB capacity - using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology. Each layer has better than 90% light transmission and writing required no more than 20 mW of the 30 mW Blu-ray spec....
Virtual SNW
Analog virtual, not Second Life virtual StorageMojo is off to Storage Networking World in Phoenix, a mere 2 hour drive away. Our unfolding economic depression may be keeping many of you at home. Too bad: Phoenix is lovely this time of year. Got a vendor question?...
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