Avere Systems: dynamic tiering for the masses – of data?
Last week RisingTide Systems, a stealth startup with no web site, spoke to StorageMojo. This week Avere Systems, a quiet but not stealthy startup with a website wouldn't. Rebecca Thompson, Avere's marketing veep, wrote Hi, Robin. Thanks for the interest, but we're not...
A RisingTide lifts all clouds
Check out their homepage and, as of today, "This page is not here yet...." That recursive mindbender is an apt introduction. Who - and what - is RisingTide Systems? StorageMojo spoke to founder Marc Fleischman to find out. The StorageMojo take-away: a semi-stealth...
WD’s 1 TB 2.5″ drive
Western Digital today announced 2 new "mobile" 2.5' drives. The WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB and 1 TB drives are both shipping. Here's the official word from WD. WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB drives (model WD7500KEVT) are available now through select distributors and resellers;...
An IBRIX customer asks: what now?
The CEO of a - I'm guessing here - specialized Internet services company wrote StorageMojo because of the recent IBRIX acquisition. Here's what he asked, edited for space. We're IBRIX customers, and we're building out a High Performance Cloud platform. With the...
End of the line for the 1.8″ HDD?
Ars Technica reported that Samsung has not found any buyers for its impressive 250 GB 1.8" hard drive. Evidently Toshiba has the same problem. Is there a market for large capacity 1.8" drives? Apple has dropped back to 120 GB drives in the iPod Classic, its largest...
HP buys IBRIX
Another scrappy startup bites the dust HP announced this morning that it is buying IBRIX, one of the up and comers for scale-out cluster file storage. They expect to close the transaction in 30 days. The IBRIX secret sauce IBRIX was founded in 2000 with IP from Yale...
Microsoft out for VMware blood
Microsoft has VMware in its sights and there will be blood. Kevin Turner, Microsoft's COO, gave what reads like a real barn-burner speech at the MS partner's conference. He covered a lot of ground, but this stark warning to EMC/VMware was the toughest. He clearly sees...
Quantum next up in de-dup battle?
Since the DoJ gave EMC an OK on the Data Domain acquisition, what's next for NetApp? How about Quantum? Through the Quantum->ADIC->Rocksoft dedup patents - cross-licensed to DD in return for 390,000 DDUP shares - Quantum owns core deduplication technology and sells a...
Update on advertising
Close observers might have noticed that StorageMojo hasn't had an ads for a month or so. I hope that is about to change. For readers who care about such things you can now read the StorageMojo advertising policy and rate card by clicking on Advertising or on the nav...
Cold storage
As the economics of data storage push more and more data onto disks, the energy efficiency of data storage is ever more critical. Storage is anti-entropic, so keeping bits organized requires energy. How can we minimize that energy input? Data cooling is the major...
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