Price list update
And not a moment too soon. The hard working elves in StorageMojo's global HQ had a serious throughput problem. The flu? Too much holiday cheer? No one knows and the elves, as usual, aren't saying much. But that's all behind us now. The newly updated price lists are up...
Private clouds won’t fly
Massive economies of scale make cloud computing and storage inevitable. But if the scale required for economic clouds exceeds the capacity requirements of the largest enterprises "private clouds" won't fly against their public counterparts. Some cool implications:...
StorageMojo at NAB next week
Consumerization is a major driving force in 21st century IT. And consumers are media junkies, their desire for music, video, photos and more driving global network and media infrastructure investments. The National Association of Broadcasters annual show in Las Vegas...
Why do we chill data centers?
James Hamilton pointed to an Intel Brief titled Reducing Data Center Cost with an Air Economizer that cost conscious folks will want to look at. The concept: let's take vendors at their specs for temperature ranges and use free outside air to cool a data center....
DroboPro at SNW
A few weeks after NetApp shut down their low-end StoreVault product, Data Robotics introduces a low-end box that will be very popular with small and some medium sized businesses: the DroboPro. Hey, it's even got a rack mount kit. Supporting USB, FireWire and now GigE...
StorageMojo hacked yet again
I'm at SNW and learning a lot about the latest and greatest, including wordpress hacking. I found this helpful Google warning when I went to the site this morning: Oh, goodie. Running the latest version of wordpress, so I *hope* that isn't the problem. Combed through...
Ask StorageMojo: is Atmos the only choice?
A regular reader writes: We’re facing a customer problem that requires a distributed global namespace, with support for disconnected operations, geographically appropriate distribution of data, and block-level cacheing for frequently accessed parts of remote files...
Update on Cisco’s UCS
Brief update on the Cisco WebEx conference this morning. I got into the conference late and missed the embargo requirements, so this could be above your pay grade. Also, WebEx wasn't showing me the slides until late in the presentation. But here's what I gleaned...
StorageMojo at SNW Orlando next week
StorageMojo's global HQ is packing up for Orlando on Monday - arriving at the hotel about 6. But not for long: leaving Wednesday around noon. Am looking forward to meeting with as many companies and StorageMojo readers as possible. During off-hours I'll probably be in...
Books: analog to digital
The Wall Street Journal (subscription probably required) reports that e-books appear to be taking off: Barnes & Noble Inc. has launched a free electronic-reader application for Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry as general book sales flag and the e-book market heats...
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