Memorial day, 431 BC
Today is Memorial Day in America. For StorageMojo.com's international visitors, this is the day Americans remember those who have fought for our liberty and our ideals. But many of our ideals are older than America. Others have shared them, beginning in ancient...
A clear message from Interop ’09
Whether you agree with the sentiment or not, they get their point across in few memorable words. They seem to have thought through the implications of using disk instead of tape. If this is something you'd like to try, check them out. The StorageMojo take It is always...
Btrfs vs ZFS – OMG!
Am @ Interop today - a nice, relaxing 250 mile drive from home - so this isn't a standard StorageMojo post. Think of it as an expanded tweet. Part of what Oracle gets with Sun is ZFS. And part of what Chris Mason of Oracle is working on is Btrfs - B-Tree or "butter"...
StorageMojo @ Interop
I'll be checking out Interop tomorrow in Las Vegas. If there's anything you'd like me to see please let me know in the comments.
Why we’re getting vertical – again
Until the 1980s the computer industry was characterized by a vertical integration of the major players. They produced their own CPUs, operating systems, applications, networks, peripherals, interconnects, and in some cases clusters. With the advent of the PC and...
Egenera price list
Egenera joins the elite group of storage vendors with their very own price list page on StorageMojo. I'm not as familiar with Egenera as I'd like to be, but given that Cisco is trying to steal their thunder maybe they've got something after all. The StorageMojo take...
Press to win
Today's economy is the opportunity of a lifetime for risk-taking tech companies. The intense economic pressure on all firms is forcing IT organizations to rethink infrastructure and vendor choices. If you've got an innovative product that cuts costs you're only half...
Cloud, sand and scale
And commercial viability In a ZDnet blog post Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft I discussed the results of a study that TwinStrata did comparing the costs and availability of Google Apps and Microsoft Office/Exchange. An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps...
Non-competes are evil
Free the American worker! After a truly wretched New England winter, news that EMC's David Donatelli is moving to HP's sunnier climbs isn't a total surprise. Nor is it surprising that EMC is trotting out its noncompete agreement to keep Dave from HP. Bad public policy...
DAS: the biggest surprise at NAB ’09
Direct attached storage may catch on PCI-e DAS is getting traction in the media world. At least a dozen vendors - all smaller - were showing it, and customers were responding. JMR's BlueStor is promising over 4 GB/sec with PCI-e attach. In a world where a single 4k...
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