The computer science behind EMC’s cloud storage
EMC has announced Hulk/Maui, now known as Atmos. I'm flying to Boston today and don't have access to EMC's announcement documents. But I have something better: the papers that provide the theoretical underpinning for Atmos. They provide an in-depth background that...
How bad do the ads suck?
I've been working with IDG to monetize StorageMojo through ad sales without much success. The latest iteration of the process you may have noticed: the ad that covers the page until you click "close." They pay OK, but they aren't the difference between hamburger and...
Flash-talking with Fusion-io
Fusion-io commissioned me to create a video with David Flynn, Fusion-io co-founder and CTO, talking about their architecture and the benefits of high bandwidth NAND flash. Even though I've been researching flash for a couple of years, some of David's comments...
Blu-ray is dead. Now what?
The window for Blu-ray success is rapidly closing (see Blu-ray is dead. Heckuva job, Sony!). Which means that 50 GB writable disks will never cost $0.35 a piece. What is a storage hungry consumer to do? Massive removable/transportable storage Together cheap CD/DVD...
Cool kit at SNW
Every silver lining has a cloud As Storage Networking World's go this was quiet. It is always good to get together with industry colleagues. And to be able to look executives in the eye when I asked them hard questions. Everybody is antsy about the economy. With the...
Axxana fixes the speed of light
Or a reasonable facsimile thereof If you are interested in Disaster Recovery check out Axxana. They solve the limited synchronous data copy distance problem with a black box designed for data. Concept is simple but getting the details right is hard. The problem...
StorageMojo @ SNW this week
StorageMojo has decamped to Dallas for Storage Networking World this week. I'll be leaving Wednesday afternoon. I still look like my picture to your right. If you see me feel free to say hello. Always interested in hearing user stories about products and learning...
Building a 1.8 exabyte data center
StorageMojo gets questions from baffled civilians out in prospect-land. This one seems worthy of a thorough airing. The writer is a student and a storage newbie, but she has the kind of question that more folks are asking. Here's her note, edited for clarity: I am...
HP/LeftHand: cluster market shapes up
Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of the LeftHand Networks shows how cluster storage is going mainstream - and how HP plans to be right in the middle of it. First PolyServe and now LeftHand. This is about commodity-based clusters Not iSCSI or GigE or 10 GigE as a storage...
3.5″ drives: the end is near
I've been waiting a long time for the transition to 2.5" drives. Now it appears that the wait is over and it is truly underway. The dynamics aren't what I expected. The impetus: installing a new WD 300 GB VelociRaptor 10k drive in my Mac Pro. It is a 3.5" heatsink...
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